Emmanuel was born and raised in Jalisco, Mexico, and now lives in the U.S. state of Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in International Studies. As a translator and research assistant, his work has focused on refugee and immigration advocacy, multilingual education, and international human rights. He has interned and volunteered with several civil society organisations, including AsylumConnect, Freedom House Detroit, and the Costa Rican Humanitarian Foundation. He was a fellow at Perseus Strategies, where he contributed to the Organization of American States’ first-ever report on the Responsibility to Protect. His work includes the development of public humanities projects celebrating Michigan’s immigrant communities. Prior to Oxford, Emmanuel served as a paralegal at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, where he assisted attorneys representing unaccompanied children in federal immigration custody. Most recently, he earned an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Emmanuel is a Rhodes scholar.