About

Erin is a climate and environmental journalist based in Boulder, Colorado. She is currently completing a 2025-2026 Ted Scripps fellowship in environmental journalism at the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado. Her reporting and research at the Center focuses on the relationship between climate change and infectious disease.

Erin most recently worked for The Boston Globe, where she covered climate adaptation and resilience, including sea level rise, disaster response and recovery, and water quality. She was previously a climate reporter for The Texas Tribune from 2020 to 2023, where she reported on the impacts of climate change on Texans, and prior to that, she was a business reporter for the Houston Chronicle.

Erin’s work has been recognized by the Investigative Reporters & Editors, the Society of Environmental Journalists, and the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. She was also part of the teams at The Texas Tribune honored by 2022 Edward R. Murrow awards for overall excellence and breaking news.

Erin is an experienced field reporter and public speaker. She has been a guest lecturer at the University of Colorado and moderated panels at Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts, the Texas Tribune‘s annual TribFest, and the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) conference.

She got her start as an intern for The Denver Post, her hometown newspaper.