Emilia Brock
Emilia Brock is a producer for GPB's program, "On Second Thought."
Emilia is a passionate storyteller and has experience in a number of creative fields, including journalism, photography, video and radio production, fiction writing and more.
She has held a variety of professional roles, ranging from arts and culture reporting to communications for Atlanta's Delta Air Lines. She was even, at one point, a street performer in Helsinki, Finland, writing stories and poems on demand.
Emilia got her start in journalism early on, writing for her local newspaper, “The Daily Breeze,” before even graduating high school. She went on to write a weekly column for that paper, recounting her experiences as a freshman at New York University. There, she double-majored in journalism and English & American literature, and minored in music, graduating cum laude.
Emilia is originally from Los Angeles, and while she will always have love for her former cities in the Avocado State and the Big Apple, she is thrilled to make her home here, now, in the Peach State.
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Friday on Political Rewind: Gov. Brian Kemp has officially launched his campaign for reelection. He starts the race with a formidable war chest but he continues to face criticism from former President Donald Trump and his allies. Is there a credible Republican primary challenge waiting in the wings?
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Thursday on Political Rewind: Overall, the pandemic’s grip on the state has loosened. New cases and hospitalizations have fallen to new lows, and deaths from the virus have become far more rare. As a result, Gov. Brian Kemp lifted the restrictions he had imposed more than a year ago. But Georgia remains in the lower tier of states for putting shots in arms, especially in rural areas.
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Political Rewind: Supreme Court's View On Election Law; Greene's Incendiary Rally Rhetoric ContinuesTuesday on Political Rewind: Voting rights experts are continuing to assess the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in an Arizona voting case. Many believe their decision will further weaken federal laws designed to protect the rights of minority voters. What might that mean for the many challenges to Georgia’s new election law?
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Wednesday on Political Rewind: Georgia Republicans have joined the chorus of GOP voices demanding that schools stop teaching so-called critical race theory. But slavery did exist … and so did lynching, Jim Crow laws and often violent measures employed to stop black people from voting. What are the consequences of downplaying or ignoring our past?
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Political Rewind: Federal Lawsuit Over Ga. Election Law Raises Scrutiny Of Voter Rights, SuppressionToday on Political Rewind: Georgia Republican leaders are attacking the Department of Justice decision to file a lawsuit challenging the state’s new voting laws. Republicans insist the lawsuit is a partisan effort to upend provisions designed to stop voting fraud.
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Thursday on Political Rewind: President Joe Biden laid out a strategy for combatting spiraling gun violence in cities across the country, calling for cities to tailor their own plans for using $350 billion from the federal COVID Relief Fund to fight violent crime. The proposal marks a change from calls by liberals to shift funding from police departments in the wake of last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests. Plus, the U.S. Supreme Court is addressing cases that deal with impactful subjects such as Obamacare and voting laws and procedures. What are the potential implications and repercussions here in Georgia?
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Tuesday on Political Rewind: Following the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2019, a massive mobilization began across governments across the world. Public health officials released safety guidelines and news organizations ran thorough coverage. But when HIV/AIDS was first identified almost 40 years ago, the response was tragically different.
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Wednesday on Political Rewind: The public got its first chance to weigh in yesterday on the potentially contentious process of drawing Georgia's new political boundaries. Last night's virtual meeting saw input from many young students' concerns about gerrymandering.
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Friday on Political Rewind: The Cobb County School Board has waded into the contentious fight against the teaching of so-called critical race theory. A divided board yesterday outlawed the concept. Meanwhile, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit calling for Major League Baseball to return the All-Star Game to Cobb County.
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Political Rewind: The Political Aims Of Ga. GOP Leaders' Arizona Visit; Reed In Atlanta Mayoral RaceThursday on Political Rewind: Three leaders of Georgia’s Republican party traveled to Arizona this week to take a look at the controversial GOP-driven recount of presidential ballots in Maricopa County. Their visit came as yet another recount of votes in Fulton county awaits a final court ruling on whether it can move forward.