Emily Advani

Emily Advani brings years of experience in management and communications to her role as IBI's VP of Operations & Communications. Emily started her career in higher education advising universities on fundraising campaigns including spearheading a record-breaking $5 million annual fund campaign. She later went on to a career in media in which she served as a National News Correspondent in Washington D.C. for KLBK/KMAC as well as serving as anchor for Comtex News' Financial News Network Online. Additionally, she was a producer/host for Radio Disney. 

Emily is also the co-founder of CaRu Entertainment LLC - a nationally-recognized youth performing arts company that has appeared on FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance, Lifetime TV’s Dance Moms and FOX 29’s Good Day Philadelphia.

In her free time, Emily enjoys producing and co-hosting radio show turned podcast Wall Street to Main Street - a podcast covering business news, the economy and the stock market. 

Emily holds a MS in Broadcast and Digital Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and has a MA in Writing Studies and a BA in English both from Saint Joseph's University.