{"id":2132,"date":"2019-12-18T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T17:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/?page_id=2132"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:04:16","slug":"emma-a-sprague-10","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/governance\/trustees\/emma-a-sprague-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma A. Sprague &#8217;10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Managing Partner, KNP Communications<br>Gloucester, MA<br>Years of Service: 2016\u20132026<\/h5>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"802\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/files\/2020\/08\/Sprague-Emma-Headshot-802x900.jpg\" alt=\"Emma A. Sprague '10\" class=\"wp-image-2438\" style=\"width:243px;height:272px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/files\/2020\/08\/Sprague-Emma-Headshot-802x900.jpg 802w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/files\/2020\/08\/Sprague-Emma-Headshot-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/files\/2020\/08\/Sprague-Emma-Headshot-768x862.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/files\/2020\/08\/Sprague-Emma-Headshot-1368x1536.jpg 1368w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/files\/2020\/08\/Sprague-Emma-Headshot.jpg 1709w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Emma A. Sprague is\u00a0Managing Partner\u00a0of KNP Communications, a private firm that specializes in helping its clients become outstanding communicators.\u00a0Emma coaches teams and individuals across sectors \u2014 from students and startups to leading national foundations, nonprofit, policy and advocacy organizations. In addition to communications coaching, Emma has a wealth of experience in management and high-visibility event execution.\u00a0Emma previously founded Upswing Strategies, which merged with KNP in January 2023. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emma graduated from Bates cum laude with a degree in art and visual culture and a minor in economics. At Bates, she was active in the Admission Office and Peer Writing Center, and was a member of the Strange Bedfellows improv comedy group. She received the 2012 Bates\u2019 Best Award and 2015 Distinguished Young Alumni Award for her passion and commitment to Bates and her leadership and organization in the young alumni community. Before joining the Bates Board of Trustees, Emma was a member of the Alumni Council.  As an entrepreneur and business-owner, Emma works closely with the Bobcat Ventures program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emma completed her MPA at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in May 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing Partner, KNP CommunicationsGloucester, MAYears of Service: 2016\u20132026 Emma A. Sprague is\u00a0Managing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":1041,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-2132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4561,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2132\/revisions\/4561"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}