Erin has twenty years of experience working with people rebuilding their lives and communities in the aftermath of war and incarceration. Erin has worked with victims and combatants of violence in Colombia and Northern Ireland. In North Carolina, she’s designed peer support reentry programs and transitional jobs programs for people coming out of prison and driver’s license restoration programs to help people avoid incarceration. In all of her work, she seeks to create the conditions that allow others to realize their full power.

She has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and a Masters in History from Duke University and an MPhil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Studies from Trinity College Dublin. In her free time, she loves cooking and throwing dinner parties, discovering new music and playing outside with her family.