Emma Spencer is the director and producer of Welcome Home, Sister (coming January, 2027), a feature-length documentary about a group of female American Red Cross volunteers, known as Donut Dollies, who served during the Vietnam War. The film focuses on one of these volunteers, Penni Evans, whose life, first of service, then of post-war adversity, exemplifies the larger plight Donut Dollies have faced in the decades since the war’s end.The impetus for the project began when Spencer archived the oral histories on this website in the Library of Congress's Veterans History Project. However, the LOC rejected all civilian women’s oral histories, including those of the Red Cross Donut Dollies.

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In 2022, Spencer created her Amherst College senior thesis exhibition, So, What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, earning Summa Cum Laude honors. Collaborating with Diane Carlson Evans, founder of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial, Spencer establish an archive dedicated to women Vietnam veterans.

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Previously, in 2019, when Spencer realized that many American Vietnam War veterans rarely had the opportunity to share their stories due to public disdain toward the war, she set out to give the veterans a platform and help American civilians better understand the war's realities. Inspired by the Vietnam War's 50th anniversary and her grandfather, Naval Officer Scott Wilson Sr., she launched Vietnam War Veterans: Then and Now with support from several veteran organizations (including Vietnam Veterans of America, Associates of Vietnam Veterans of America, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, The United States Vietnam War Commemoration, and The Witness to War Foundation).  ​​