Emer Yip is an arts manager, curator and freelance project manager based in Cork city. A graduate of University of Galway (English & Archaeology) and UCC (Computer Science & Project Management),  Emer worked as a field archaeologist and site photographer in Co. Clare before relocating to San Francisco, California where she co-founded an artist collective and cultural venue in the city while working as a lab technician in the commercial photography industry.  Emer has held senior administrative roles with several notable Irish arts organisations including Sample-Studios, Cork International Film Festival, Corcadorca Theatre Company and STAMP Festival of Creativity, and was the recipient of an Arts Council Agility Award for visual art in 2021. She was a core member of the management team behind the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food & Wine and currently manages the Cork International Film Festival culinary cinema strand.