Emily Schrader

Emily Schrader was born in 1991 in United States

Emily Schrader was born in Seattle, Washington, on 20 April 1991 and grew up in Los Angeles. She comes from a mixed Christian and Jewish background and identifies as Jewish.

She studied political science at the University of Southern California, finishing in 2012. She then earned a master's degree in political communications at Tel Aviv University in 2014, and moved to Israel in 2015.

She began working as a freelance writer and speaker in 2010 and has written a column for The Jerusalem Post. From 2011 she served as digital director of StandWithUs, and in 2019 she founded Social Lite Creative, a digital marketing firm. She has campaigned for social media companies to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

In October 2023 Foreign Minister Eli Cohen appointed her to a team of 10 people advocating for Israel online during the Gaza war. In December 2023 she initiated an open letter against Iran's government and Hamas, signed by 55 women from 12 Middle Eastern countries. In February 2025 she published a book with Blake Flayton.

In May 2021 she became engaged to Arab-Israeli journalist Yoseph Haddad.