40 under 40 – 2017 winners

Emily Halasah

Emily Halasah
Cleveland Ohio
College Associate Management Position, Ohio Medical Mutual.

Emily is a recent graduate, just beginning her career with the largest health insurer in Ohio, Medical Mutual. She was selected from a pool of 500 applicants nationwide for one of the six coveted positions in the College Associate Program. In this program, the six graduates spend the first year of rotating through each department of the company to learn all about the business of health insurance. Emily intends to go to law school in the near future and become a general practice attorney who specializes in immigration issues. She plans to continue her mother’s work of providing high quality legal services to the Croatian- American community. Emily graduated from Cleveland State University in May 2016, degree in Health Science.

During her pursuit of an undergraduate degree, she served in Student Government and was elected Student Body President her junior year. As President, she represented over 17,000 students on a variety of committees and councils, most notably the President’s Council on Diversity and the Provost’s Council on Sexual Violence Prevention.

She presented to the Board of Trustees and represented the university at the Ohio State House and in Washington D.C. for various lobbying events. Emily has been a member of the Croatian Fraternal Union of America for 22 years.

Currently, she is the President of Zelena Polja Adult Tamburica of Cleveland and is working to make it a 501(c)(3) organization in order to further promote the preservation of Croatian culture. She is a proud graduate of American Zagreb Jr. Tamburica, where she played the Brac and Prim. She was a member for ten years and says she was able to learn so much about Croatian heritage and culture through this experience. She is also a member of the Association of Croatian American Professionals. She has already volunteered for several non-profit organizations including United Way of Greater Cleveland, and Susan G. Komen Northeast since joining Medical Mutual. Family is from Donji Dragonozc (Turoplje region) which is now part of the city of Zagreb.

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