Born in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, Erin has worked at Ashoka in various capacities both in Washington DC and abroad, helping launch a DVD series about top social entrepreneurs, and guiding a process of Ashoka Fellow collaborations around water/sanitation in Africa, South America, and Asia. Erin served as a Field Organizer for Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign in Georgia and North Carolina, setting up satellite offices, training teams of volunteers, and handling outreach to various constituency groups. Currently, she manages Venture and a host of other things at Ashoka Ireland/Scandinavia. Previously, she founded a community teaching garden and won a social entrepreneurship fellowship to begin "Democracy in the Classroom," a program which matched college students and young people in understanding their own role in the political process. She is a spoken word poet and runs a roof-top garden at a homeless shelter in Dublin.
