Prior to serving as the director of residential programs in Georgia, Emily Acker was director of the Youth Villages - Inner Harbour Campus in Douglasville, Ga., one of Georgia’s largest intensive residential treatment centers.
Acker joined the Inner Harbour staff in 1988 as a direct care counselor in the outdoors program. She has worked for the campus for more than 15 years and served as administrator before the merger with Youth Villages.
Acker has a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of the South at Sewanee and a master’s degree in administration from Central Michigan University.