Emily Roller is the co-founder and Treasurer of Midnight Oil Collective and the co-founder of Makerstate. She has a breadth of experience across the arts, education, nonprofit administration, and technology start-ups. She is currently developing an EdTech platform, Makerstate, that provides artists with entrepreneurial skills through courses, tools, and action-based learning. In the past, she has curated an educational series that helped artists develop entrepreneurial mindsets and skills at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale and at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance. Her work for the stage has been performed at venues including Washington National Opera and Opera America. She holds a BA in English from Yale (‘07), an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins (‘12), and an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (‘15).