Emma Piper-Burket is a visual artist, filmmaker, writer, and educator using fiction, non-fiction, and collected media to investigate interactions between nature, society, and the human spirit. Her work is process-based and research driven, incorporating social trends, ancient history, personal experience, science, politics, ephemera, and the natural world. She was a 2024 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow and has received support from the Sundance Institute, Bemis Center, Visual Studies Workshop, and Light Cone. Emma holds a PhD in Critical Media Practices from the University of Colorado Boulder, an MFA from FAMU in Prague, and a BA in Arabic and Classical Studies from Georgetown University.