Emma Allen

Age: 29 Pronouns: She/her Neighborhood: Boerum Hill Most Likely To: Get an anxiety-induced bloody nose while trying to play it cool Favorite Quote: “Nobody can eat fifty eggs.” As a kid, Emma would clip all the cartoons from the New Yorker and keep them in a folder. Now, she’s the first woman to run the…

Every year, our annual 30 under 30 lists highlight young Brooklynites who are marching fearlessly into the future, taking the borough with them―wherever they go. Following their lead, we asked ourselves what we could do better to ensure that these lists fairly reflects this borough’s population, and everything it has to offer. If not everything,…