About
I turn stories into the money that keeps missions alive.
I help founders and mission-driven organizations find the one story that makes people lean in — and then I build the campaign around it. Investors, donors, board members, partners: the audience changes, but the craft doesn’t. Twenty years of film and television taught me how to make people feel something fast. A decade of fundraising campaigns taught me how to turn that feeling into a decision.
Whether you’re a founder raising your next round or a conservation organization launching a capital campaign, you get the same two things from me: a storyteller who sees the big picture, and an operator who will help you actually ship it — on time, on brand, and built to last.
Two ways to work with me: the Story Sprint (a fast, focused narrative diagnostic) and Campaign Storytelling (the film and narrative package built for campaigns that need to raise real money).
The same approach has raised money, reach, and momentum for organizations across sectors:
✔️ Built a nonprofit partner program from scratch for a travel-tech startup, bringing on 7 mission-driven organizations — including two national ocean and plastics nonprofits — and originating a sponsorship whose press release was picked up by 573 media outlets, reaching a potential audience of 152 million.
✔️ Rebuilt a 50,000-subscriber email program for a luxury resort and golf club, lifting open rates from 15% to 82%, growing social engagement by more than 50%, and helping turn sluggish sales into back-to-back sold-out events.
✔️ Wrote and produced the investor campaign video for a telehealth company’s equity crowdfunding raise at a $28.1M valuation — clearing platform compliance review before a fixed launch date.
✔️ Led launches and fundraising campaigns for startups representing $146M in combined company valuations.
✔️ Executive Director from Habitat for Humanity of Oregon called my fundraising film the best she had ever seen.
Hey! I’m Emmy Wu.
I believe the stories that raise money are not louder, not slicker — but truer. My job is to find that story inside your organization, and then build the campaign that carries it to the people who can fund it.
I spent two decades on film, television, and advertising sets — features for Paramount Pictures, MGM, Disney, and Jim Henson Pictures; three seasons of The Real Housewives of Vancouver; national commercials for Subaru, Taco Bell, and Kia — learning how to make an audience feel something in the first seven seconds and how to hold a production together when everything is going sideways. Then I spent the next decade putting that craft to work for founders and mission-driven organizations: investor videos, launch campaigns, partner programs, and the case for support that gets a board to say yes.
What does that mean for you?
You get a storyteller who sees the whole arc, and an operator who has produced enough campaigns to know where and why they break. I write the narrative, direct the film, and build the systems that keeps your movement and mission alive, long after the campaign has ended.
- STORYTELLER + CAMPAIGN STRATEGIST 100%
- PRODUCER & OPERATIONS VETERAN 100%
- NATURE LOVER, VOLUNTEER & CAT MOM 100%
$146M+
in client valuations
152M+
Earned Media Reach From One Partnership
20 Years
in film, TV & advertising
My career started on the film sets of Vancouver, BC — on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples.
On a Subaru Outback commercial with one of the cast – Porgie the Porcupine, 2007.
I grew up in Vancouver and studied anthropology at Simon Fraser University, with a field school in Southeast Asia that taught me the discipline I still use every day: sit down, listen longer than is comfortable, and let people tell you what their world is actually like before you try to describe it. Twenty years in film production — Paramount, MGM, Jim Henson Pictures, commercials for Subaru and Taco Bell — taught me how to make people feel something fast. Three seasons of The Real Housewives of Vancouver taught me how to keep a story intact in the middle of chaos.
I started Emmy Wu Media in 2015 because I believe the best stories aren’t the loudest; they’re the ones that last. Since then I’ve written and produced investor campaigns for founders, built a nonprofit partner program that brought national ocean and plastics organizations to the table, and led launches for companies representing $146M in combined valuations.
Today I live on the Kitsap Peninsula, across the water from Seattle, where I volunteer with a local land conservancy — usually with a pair of work gloves on — and spend my free hours in the garden, re-scaping fish tanks, or hiking the Olympics.
That connection to place shapes how I think about every campaign: the story has to be rooted in something real, or it won’t hold.
The founders and organizations I love working with are building something that matters — to their bottom line, yes, but also to a coastline, a community, a species.
If that sounds like you, we should talk.