Emily Nielsen Jones

Biography

Emily is a donor-activist engaged in promoting human equality, justice, & peace around the world. She is particularly passionate and engaged in the nexus of faith, gender, and development & working to mobilize our faith traditions to more fully and unambiguously embrace gender equality. In her role at the Imago Dei Fund, Emily has helped the foundation to adopt a “gender-lens” in its grantmaking to create a world where girls and women can thrive and achieve their full human potential. Emily brings a contemplative posture to both faith & philanthropy and is passionate about supporting the inner lives of change agents to lead with love and be their best selves in the challenging work they do. Emily is the co-author/convener of a project called The Girl Child & Her Long Walk to Freedom which aims to change patriarchal norms wrapped within religion to get faith fully on board with women’s equality and our shared emancipation as a human family.