Emma Kornetsky

Emma Kornetsky is an Assistant Director on the Homelessness & Housing (H&H) team working to develop sustainable models to prevent homelessness before it occurs and make processes to connect to housing more effective and equitable. On the H&H team, Emma has supported work in Los Angeles, Alameda County, Detroit, and the State of New Jersey. In 2024-2025, Emma will lead the H&H team’s prevention learning agenda and community of practice, refine executive education and skills-based training work, and lead the expansion of new projects in the Bay Area. Previously, as a member of the GPL Children & Families team, Emma supported Michigan’s Children’s Services Agency to create new upstream connections to community-based supports for families at-risk of child welfare involvement, and improve the procurement, delivery, and management of contracted family support services ($28M in annual contracts).

Prior to joining the GPL, Emma led government relations for Philabundance, the largest hunger-relief organization in the Philadelphia region. In that role, she worked with community members, business leaders, and government officials to reduce food insecurity through policy and administrative advocacy, new programmatic collaborations, and acquisition of discretionary government funds. Beginning with her work at the food bank, Emma has a strong commitment to meeting people where they are (potentially over a warm meal!) and centering their experience and holistic needs in designing services. Emma holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and a BA in Psychology from Haverford College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. She is based in Brooklyn and loves exploring NYC through all-day walks and food crawls (the tastier cousin of bar crawls), playing soccer, and hiking with her dog.