emilyweinberg
I write, I'm building a company called Skipit, and I've been working on mental health since I started a nonprofit at sixteen.
I'm the fourth generation of writers in my family, and I'm not the first founder either. My parents ran a talking teddy bear company in the 90s.
your photo here5¢Mass.USAOctober 26, 2026
Currently
- Building
- Running Skipit, which went live on the Chrome Web Store on August 15.
- Writing
- A children's book, with an illustrator friend.
- School
- Senior at Babson, graduating May 2027.
- Also
- Natalie Taylor Scholar. My social change project runs through Skipit.
Workthe main thing right now
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Skip scenes, not stories.
A Chrome extension that lets you skip a scene, or read a short summary of it, while you watch. It started as a class project at community college. Now it's a company, SkipItTech.
Scenes are identified and timestamped ahead of time, using subtitle analysis and human annotation, so the skipping happens smoothly as you watch.
Try it on the Chrome Web Store (opens in a new tab)
A demo of Skipit.
How I got here
- 2017Started Sophrosyne Mental Health, a youth nonprofit, at 16
- 2017First petition: stop giving live animals as carnival prizes
- 2018Organized a 1,500-person student walkout for gun violence prevention
- 2019Petitioned for mandatory mental health education in Massachusetts, K to 12
- 20241st place, Launch at MCC Pitch Competition
- 20263rd place, Boston Globe Tech Innovation Summit, "Defeat the Odds"
- 2026Skipit launches
Sophrosyne
Where the mental health work started.
I was fifteen when I was hospitalized for depression and anxiety, and sixteen when I founded Sophrosyne Mental Health: a place for teens to talk safely about mental health, learn skills, and meet other teens going through the same things.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for people ages 10 to 24. We believe mental health, like physical health, should be taught early and built into the health curriculum in every school.
Brave New Films covered our Sophrosyne mental health rally in their #YouthInAction series, and our push for Massachusetts legislation to make mental health education mandatory in public schools starting as early as 5th grade.
- 16
- My age when I founded it
- 5th
- The grade we want mandatory mental health education in Massachusetts public schools to start
- K–12
- My 2019 petition for mandatory mental health education in Massachusetts.
Projectsvibe coded, all of them
Six things I built because I wanted them to exist. Two of them are tools for Skipit. One is for a nonprofit I started at sixteen.
Clockin
A time tracker built for Skipit. Hours are logged against categories like engineering, fundraising, annotation and pitch, each entry keeps its own notes and links, and the month view shows where the time actually went.
Next.jsPrismaPostgres
Content
A planner for Skipit's content. Posts get drafted, handed off and approved before they go out, with counts of what is waiting, what is past due and what is coming up, over a week at a time.
ReactExpressSQLiteClaude API
Sophrosyne Mental Health
The rebuilt website for a youth-focused mental health nonprofit, moved off Wix. It includes sourced articles, an interactive brain tour and a resource library, with accessibility and fact-checking built in and verified by automated checks.
Astro
More things I built3
Rhythm
A personal habit and wellness app built around five hubs: Today, Body, Habits, Make and Look Back. It covers voice and photo food logging, workouts with embedded videos, goal tracking and a closet planner. There are no streaks or missed-day counters, by design.
Next.jsSupabase
Docket
A tracker for pitch competition, accelerator, grant and fellowship applications. It shows deadlines in list and week views, imports applications from Asana, and has an AI assistant for brainstorming judge questions, rewriting answers and reviewing pitch decks.
ReactFirebaseClaude API
Bluebook
A personal study planner. It tracks assignments and due dates, breaks each one into planned work sessions before the deadline, and calculates grades using category weighting. It has a focus timer that logs time against each assignment, and installs on iPhone as a web app.
ReactFirebase
Most of the repositories are private for now. When one goes public, a link appears here.
Writingfourth generation
Writing
Speaking
I talk about starting a company in college, youth mental health, and organizing as a teenager.
- 2026Boston Globe Tech Innovation Summit, "Defeat the Odds" (opens in a new tab)PITCH · 3RD PLACE
- 2026UMass Entrepreneurship Conference (opens in a new tab)CONFERENCE · SPEAKER
- 2024Launch at MCC Pitch Competition (opens in a new tab)PITCH · 1ST PLACE
- 2019Brave New Films #YouthInAction, on our Sophrosyne mental health rally (opens in a new tab)FILM · FEATURED
- 2018WBUR, "Get Our Voices Out" (opens in a new tab)RADIO · GUEST
Press
- BABSON THOUGHT & ACTIONEmily Weinberg '27 and Skipit Recognized at eMerge Americas2026 (opens in a new tab)
- 2GETHER-INTERNATIONALMeet the latest MVP Cohort founders2026 (opens in a new tab)
- BABSON WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE2026 Spring Ventures, WIN Lab2026 (opens in a new tab)
- STARTUP BOSTONBuilt in Boston: Student Founders to Watch2026 (opens in a new tab)
- PATCHStudent Credits MCC's Small Class Sizes and Professors for Success2024 (opens in a new tab)
thank you for reading
Postcards
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Here since 2006
Where I grew up, where I go to school, and where Skipit got started. My corners of it: Cambridge, Burlington, downtown, the Seaport. Dinner at Mariel or Lolita Back Bay, tapas at T'ahpas 529, brunch at The Friendly Toast.
MASS.
12 stamps, 8 countries so far
Aboutthe studio and everything else
Studio
Otherwise
They used to live in the backyard. Now they fight over the same toys.
Seven years of Spanish, plus some French. hola, bonjour.
I've done theater, choir and costumes, and I'd love to direct.
Yoga, when I can fit it in.
Still picking up shifts at Topgolf.
Someday I want a farm, to travel lots, and to lobby for mental health.