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Erin currently serves as the Executive Director of the Indigenous Food & Agriculture Initiative (IFAI) at the University of Arkansas School of Law, where she supports the Initiative through program development, research and writing, and analysis of legislative and regulatory issues affecting Tribal governments, businesses, and individual producers.

Before beginning her work with the Initiative, she worked as a Staff Attorney and Research Coordinator for the Cobell Commission, a national working group convened by the Secretary of the Interior to repair the federal government’s Indian land trust management system.

Erin holds both her J.D. and her LL.M. in Agricultural & Food Law from the University of Arkansas. She has taught Legal Issues: Indigenous Food and Agriculture and Nutrition Law & Policy in the LL.M. Program.