Supported by 60 years of professional experience, Dr. Emily Moore is well-regarded in the fields of education and athleticism. Since 1975, she has served as the founder and executive director of the Alliance Junior Tennis Development Program, where she teaches the fundamentals of sportsmanship and respectful etiquette of tennis, as well as develops innovative curricula to instruct classes of upwards of 30 students. Using tennis to encourage structure and discipline in children, Dr. Moore’s efforts were lauded by the late Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson.
Adjacent to this appointment, Dr. Moore is a respected educator who formerly served as a physical education teacher at Ulysses Byas Elementary School in Roosevelt, New York. Retiring in 2019, she was celebrated with a retirement party in January 2020, testifying to her decades-long tenure in education. Earlier in her career, Dr. Moore taught at Roosevelt Middle School and High School and spent two years teaching at Brooklyn College. She also served as a varsity boys’ and girls’ tennis coach in Roosevelt for many years. Although retired, Dr. Moore continues to serve as an elected member of the school board of the Roosevelt School District.
Outside of her primary vocation, Dr. Moore has been equally dedicated to civil rights as an ambassador of the People to People Ambassador Program in South Africa and a past volunteer in the Peace Corps in Nigeria. Impressively, she organized the Friends of SNCC in Paris and served with Queen Mother Moore for three years in a delegation touring the United States and Tanzania. In 1972, Dr. Moore traveled to Puerto Rico with Dr. Height, visiting schools, libraries, prisons and museums.
An undergraduate alumnus of Morgan State University in the 1960s, Dr. Moore was the first of 11 students at the university to be arrested for refusing to leave a segregated movie theater. As a result, the prestigious Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Morgan State University to encourage Dr. Moore and her colleagues to continue persevering in the face of struggle and discrimination. Dr. Moore went on to receive a Certificate of Appreciation from the Foot Soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement in 2016.
As a testament to her success and longevity in education, Dr. Moore has accepted numerous accolades. Inducted into the 34th Annual Eastern Hall of Fame in 2021 and the Black Tennis Hall of Fame by the American Tennis Association in 2019, she also earned the SCOPE Award for Community Service in 2021, the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Award from Centennial Avenue Elementary School in 2019, and the Women of Distinction Award from Nassau County, New York, in 2015. Other honors to Dr. Moore’s credit also included the Outstanding Citizen Contribution to Improve Education Award, the Building for Tomorrow Award, the Dedication Award from Harlem Junior Tennis, the Tennis Development Award from the Black Tennis & Sports Foundation, and the Arthur Ashe Multicultural Enhancement Award from the United States Tennis Association, among many others.