An Ivy League Witch C.V.
Emily McGill is a spiritual psychologist and multi-disciplinary artist. A recovering Broadway publicist turned Ivy League Witch, she’s been called “persuasive” by The New York Times. Her first tarot deck, The Hirschfeld Broadway Tarot, is available from Running Press.
At Columbia University’s Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Teachers College, Emily earned a Master of Arts in Psychology with a focus on spirituality, researching tarot as an effective tool for self-reflection.
She is an early career of the American Psychological Association, the International Association of Applied Psychology, Psi Chi International Psychology Honor Society, the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences, and the Scientific & Medical Network.
As a member of the Global Advocacy and Applied Psychology Lab at Columbia, she handled media relations for Sierra Leone’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations during the Commission on the Status of Women and advocated for mental health on the global stage during the World Government Summit.
Emily has been invited to read tarot at the United Nations, NY Fashion Week, and corporate events; in Broadway dressing rooms, private penthouses, The Museum of Broadway, and even the royal Consulate of Monaco (twice!). She has been featured by The New York Times (also twice!), The Tamron Hall Show, Bustle, and Business Insider.
In a past life, Emily was a publicist and communications consultant who worked on 20 Broadway shows, representing the Tony Award-winning productions of A Raisin in the Sun starring Denzel Washington, Memphis, Billy Elliot, and Disney's The Lion King, plus shows with talents as diverse as Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Takei, Tavi Gevinson, and The Rascals. She’s also handled global events, music, film, TV, and streaming clients at companies large and small (from HBO and the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, to internet startups and non-profits. And male strippers. Yes, male strippers).
She’s also co-founder of S.N.O.B. (Sunday Night on Broadway), a popup Broadway industry dance party.
Career Highlights:
Presenting her thesis, “Tarot as an effective tool for self-reflection” at the American Psychological Association’s Spirituality and Religion divisional conference at Princeton Theological Seminary
Discovering her work installed in The National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian
Participating in mental health discussions during the World Government Summit in Dubai
Showing her ceramic work at the Macy Art Gallery at Columbia University
Producing a concert of selections from Memphis for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the State Department
A literal ‘stop the presses’ moment with People Magazine for the exclusive photo of the Obamas at A Raisin in the Sun
Producing starry events like an afternoon tea for Tony nominee LaTanya Richardson Jackson hosted by Julianne Moore, including the reading of a congratulatory letter from First Lady Michelle Obama
Handling Tony Award winner Kenny Leon’s awards season PR campaigns for Best Director
Spearheading the fifth-anniversary press campaign for Disney’s Aladdin on Broadway
Producing Disney on Broadway’s first Broadway in Bryant Park takeover featuring the stars of Aladdin, Frozen, and The Lion King
Select Broadway Credits
