Update: LA Wildfires

To the Emerson community,

I am sending this message from Los Angeles, where I arrived earlier today. With the wildfires dominating national news and literally clouding California’s horizon, many of you may be concerned about loved ones in the Los Angeles area, including our friends and colleagues at Emerson Los Angeles (ELA) and our many alumni and families living and working in the area.

I want to assure the community that our ELA campus is safe, albeit quite windy and smoky. My thanks to the leaders, faculty, and staff at ELA for managing the situation in Los Angeles and supporting our community. We anticipate that undergraduate ELA students can move in as scheduled on Saturday, Jan. 18, but we will provide updates if warranted. If there are affected students who need to adjust their move-in schedule, please contact hre@emerson.edu for the Boston Campus and ela_reslife@emerson.edu for the LA campus.

The wildfires have directly and indirectly impacted many members of our extended Emerson community, and we hope and pray for their safety. Please remember that support is available from the Emerson Wellness Center, UWill, the Center for Spiritual Life, the Healing & Advocacy Collective, or the Employee Assistance Program. 

Thank you,

Jay Bernhardt
President