Erin is the founder of RISE by Sundara, an innovation fund for female entrepreneurs with innovations to stop the spread of COVID in their own communities. RISE gives each woman $5,000 of seed funding, business training and mentorship. RISE fellows are focused on improving water quality, hygiene, and sanitation and include innovations like toilets that use 80% less water, water filters made out of moringa seeds and solar-powered hand washing kiosks. Previously, Erin was the founder of Sundara, an organization that recycled 1.8 million bars of hotel soap and employed 40 women full time across India, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa and Myanmar. Sundara reached over 200,000 children each month, working with partners like Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott. Sundara has been recognized by the Huffington Post, BBC, CNN and the Government of India in it's "Swachh Bharat" (Clean India) campaign. Erin is a Forbes 30 Under 30 (2018) and winner of the Summit Series Impact & Diversity Fellowship. Prior to Sundara, Erin was the CEO of IsraAID US, where she managed a $10 million aid program focused on disaster relief projects and led humanitarian aid missions to Nepal, Kenya (Kakuma refugee camp), Lesbos, Greece and Houston, Texas. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and has lived in Israel, India and Thailand, before making New York City her home.