Emma Roniger

Emma Roniger, an Ethan Allen, Judith Mohr Keane, and Wildgen Family scholar, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Wichita State University in December 2024 with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in political science and two minors in management and honors law and public policy. She was a part of the Cohen Honors College. She is a born and raised Kansan and loves her state deeply and is full of midwestern pride. 

In her senior year at Wichita State she interned with the Public Policy and Management Center (PPMC). Through her work there, she helped with strategic planning, community development and helping to coordinate professional development training classes. Emma fell in love with public service in college, knowing that she wanted to spend her life helping people, in that she found public administration. When you show kindness, empathy, and capacity to help others, you put yourself on the right track. 

The field of public service is incredibly rewarding and knowing that you are making a positive impact in somebody's life is all she dreams of doing. She wants to live her life divinely selfless. Emma has dreams of becoming a City Manager one day in the near future. She also has interests in urban planning and community development and hopes to get experience in those fields. Emma wrote her undergraduate thesis over urban planning policies, titled “Silent Segregation: How Local and Federal policies from the Post-World War II period contributed to the perpetuation of racial segregation and inequality in America.” She hopes to make a positive impact wherever her future endeavors take her.