Emily joined the M.B & Edna Zale Foundation as President in 2023, leading their mission to support individuals and families as they build productive and meaningful lives.
With extensive experience in the non-profit sector, Emily specialized in social impact, previously serving as the Senior Vice President for Social Venture Partners Dallas bringing government, philanthropists, corporations, and community leaders together to tackle systemic inequity and social injustice. During her time in Dallas, she worked with numerous non profits and social impact clients through her company, Hargrove Partnership. These clients included EarthX, Ronald McDonald House Dallas, the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, and the Dallas Arboretum. Additionally, Emily helped launch the Dallas Festival of Ideas and spent six years with the Dallas International Film Festival.
Before moving to the USA in 2007, Emily worked for Warner Bros’ on four of the Harry Potter movies, prior to which she worked in public relations in London managing the communication strategies for well-known consumer brands in the FMCG, luxury, beauty and travel industries.
Emily is a graduate of the Leadership Dallas Class of 2017 and was a class advisor for the Class of 2018. Before moving to New Mexico in 2025, Emily served on the Board of Trustees for the Dallas Jewish Community Foundation and the Southwest Community Foundation. In 2022, she was awarded the “Outstanding Work in Philanthropy” for Women’s History Month from the City of Dallas.
Emily is at her happiest when she is hiking on top of a mountain with her two kids, two dogs, and her husband Miles who she met on the set of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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