Emma Huelskoetter
Coordinator of Campus Mindset Interventions
Emma Huelskoetter (pronounced "HULL-sketter") is the Coordinator of Campus Mindset Interventions at the Tennessee Board of Regents, where she supports Motivate Lab’s utility-value interventions in community college math classrooms. Emma believes wholeheartedly in student potential and invests her energy in expanding and improving college success initiatives for low-income and historically marginalized student populations. As a member of what Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack calls “the privileged poor,” Emma navigated college as a lower-income student who possessed a great deal of educational privilege and cultural capital. Her experience adapting to this in-between space where privilege and disadvantage collided informed her decision to serve as a high school college adviser in both North Carolina and Missouri, where she spent 4 years mentoring high school seniors through the full college search, application, financial aid, and transition process.
Emma earned her B.A. in English from Davidson College in 2014 and her Master of Public Policy from Vanderbilt University in 2020, where she specialized in Higher Education Policy. Though she has called 7 different states home, Emma was raised and educated in the South and feels a strong personal investment in promoting educational equity in Tennessee. In her free time, Emma enjoys knitting, gardening, and indulging her love for children’s literature.