An Indiana native, Emerson created MuggleNet in 1999... when he was twelve years old. As a bored home-schooled student, he had too much spare time on his hands and thought it would be fun to create a Harry Potter website. He had no idea what he was getting into. Since then, MuggleNet has grown to a staff of over one hundred volunteers and is one of the most popular fan-run Harry Potter sites on the Internet, with over 20 million visitors, from over 150 countries... every month! You'll find copious amounts of Harry Potter information on MuggleNet including trivia and fun facts from the books and movies, editorials, games, Photoshop contests, caption contests, fan art and most of all, legions of Harry Potter fans with which you can share your fascination with, "all things Potter."

Emerson has met with and interviewed many members of the cast and crew of the movies, and even author J.K. Rowling herself, who invited Emerson and Melissa Anelli of The Leaky Cauldron to her house in Scotland last summer. He has travelled all around the world for various Harry Potter events and has helped coordinate and organize massive book release parties.

While not entertaining (in his own words), "his abnormal obsession with the boy wizard," Emerson is a freshman at the University of Notre Dame and enjoys reading, paintball, golf, tennis, basketball, baseball, The Simpsons, The Family Guy, The West Wing, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Caddyshack, Austin Powers, Star Wars, McDonald's Sausage/Egg McMuffins, and is a self-proclaimed breakfast cereal addict. Just your typical college freshman, who just so happens to have been a twelve-year-old Internet entrepreneur as well.

Emerson has two wonderfully supportive parents and two brothers, one a year younger than him and another that is eleven years his junior, whom he absolutely adores.