Erin is a multi-media artist and writer, the proud daughter of a Vietnam veteran, and granddaughter of three veterans of WWII with multiple other ancestors having served during times of conflict.

A fourth generation ‘shutterbug’, Erin is devoted to travel, culture, documentation, storytelling, and how individual stories of triumph and tragedy impact generations. She creates artwork from the intersection of meticulous research and her love of gathering vintage fabrics and photographs, artifacts, and documents from the various places she travels.

Erin’s films, writing, artwork, and research reflect her insights into human behavior and her devotion to honoring history with unfaltering curiosity and empathy.

She understands on a deeply personal level the profound hunger for information that exists in families who have been affected by war, the quest to find answers, and the inexplicable understanding that results from those answers.

With a lifelong interest in the full spectrum experience of war, Erin’s passion for investigative research has guided her extensive travel through over a dozen countries and their concentration camps, battlefields, and massacre sites while studying and absorbing the individual perspectives of those who lived through it all. She has traveled thousands and thousands of miles to interview survivors, veterans, and their families, and through her consistent quest for primary sources, has amassed an archive that has multiple hundreds of thousands of documents, historical photographs and letters, and personal accounts. 

To date, her work with veterans, survivors, and others impacted by war has directly impacted three hundred families and counting.

A member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary and American Legion Auxiliary, Erin was made an honorary citizen of Schweighouse-sur-Moder, France for her dedication to preserving the legacy of the town’s liberation from Nazi rule.

She writes articles for the Rainbow Reveille, the 42nd Infantry Division’s newspaper since 1917, and is a published author and editor of books. 

Erin is the founder of Stories of War, a 501(c)(3) non-profit on a mission to honor the individual stories of those impacted by the multi-faceted legacy of war through documentary films. To learn more visit: www.storiesofwar.org