Erin has a B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado - Boulder, as well as a M.S. in Telecommunications:Network Security, also from CU Boulder. Throughout her time as a student, she worked at LASP (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics), aiding projects for data collection and flight software. She has been a Network Security Engineer at Meta for the past 8 years, honing in on security design and incident response readiness as her areas of interest and pursuit. Prior to becoming an engineer, Erin’s previous life was as a ballet dancer, where she had the opportunity to perform with a major regional ballet company, as well as in several international ballet festivals.

To balance screentime, Erin loves backpacking through the Western wilderness, foraging for mushrooms in the Redwoods, exploring dances of all genres, and wrangling her two feline shadows.