Biography

For more than two decades, Erin has brought her energy and commitment to Alaska’s future through her work in policy, politics, and social change, balancing that work through non-profit, for-profit and political lenses. As a founder and the executive director of The Salmon Project, Erin built a statewide social change initiative. She worked for preeminent Alaska consulting firm, McKinley Research Group (formerly McDowell Group), and served as chief of staff to the majority leader of the Alaska House of Representatives. Erin has an undergraduate degree from Middlebury College and a masters from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Erin has spent much of her life living between the ancestral home of the Sugpiaq people in the Kodiak Archipelago, and Lingít Aaní in Southeast Alaska. She is descended from ancestors who earned their living at sea and has engaged in Alaska’s commercial fisheries since her childhood. Currently based in Juneau, Erin is raising her son to be at home on the lands and waters of coastal Alaska.