Current Students

Class of 2013
Erin’s interest in science shines through the lens of her relationship to her home—the historic and biologically-rich South Carolina Lowcountry. Her quest to understand the breadth and shape of the South’s native landscapes has led her to take jobs with an aquarium, a public power utility, a climate change research team, an urban farm, and multiple environmental nonprofits. Through work and research, Erin has traveled to unsung, rural corners of the region, handling alligators, rebuilding oyster beds, and eating a lot of good cooking along the way. She graduated from the University of South Carolina with degrees in English literature and ecology and a research emphasis in the flora and fauna of longleaf pine forests. Maligned reptiles and questions of natural history, ecosystem ecology, and small-scale agriculture are the most frequent subjects of her writing. Attending the Graduate Program in Science Writing at MIT has been a dream of hers for more than half a decade.