Erin is a California native that has a longstanding commitment to environmental sustainability and social responsibility.

Erin graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University in 1997, where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies, with a concentration in Environmental Sciences. Upon graduation, Erin completed a one-year fellowship with Green Corps, during which she directed grassroots campaigns for a variety of non-profit environmental organizations throughout the southeast and northeast. She then helped launch and served as the southeastern organizer of Defenders of Wildlife’s State Biodiversity Project.

Erin then attended Emory University Law School where she worked in the Turner Environmental Law Clinic providing legal services to community organizations committed to environmental justice. She graduated cum laude in 2003. During law school, Erin served as an articles editor for the Emory Law Journal and interned at Trustees for Alaska, the Center for Food Safety, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Erin also received her Master’s degree in Theological Studies through Emory University’s Law and Religion program, for which she focused on environmental ethics.

Following graduate school, Erin moved to Santa Barbara, CA to serve as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ruggero J. Aldisert of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She then settled in the Bay Area, first working as an associate in the Oakland office of Boies, Schiller, and Flexner LLP, where she practiced securities law, antitrust law and complex litigation. She then worked as a litigation attorney for Sher Leff, LLP, where she represented states and public agencies in lawsuits against major oil companies and chemical manufactures involving MTBE and pesticide contamination of public drinking water systems.

Erin’s publications include: Can Aquaculture Continue to Circumvent the Regulatory Net of the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act?, 51 Emory L.J. 1187 (2002); Three Fallacies of the Contemporary Legal Concept of Environmental Injury: An Appeal to Enhance ‘One-Eyed Reason’ With a Normative Consciousness, 18 Tul. Envtl. L.J. 1 (2004).

Erin is a dedicated ashtanga yoga practitioner, has a passion for organic gardening and cooking, and volunteers at the Koshland Community Garden in San Francisco.