She received her PhD in Sociology and an M.S. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University. Erin has received a Fulbright Fellowship to Bangladesh to research the secondary effects of food aid in local communities. She has worked or consulted with CARE, the United Nations World Food Program, and numerous other international NGOs on markets, food security and food assistance programs. Erin is currently pursuing three parallel research agendas. First, she examines the role of gender as mediating agriculture to nutrition linkages in South Asia, with funding from IMMANA and with colleagues Marzia Fontana and Sudha Nayaranan. Second, she studies the relationships among subjective wellbeing, community attributes, relative deprivation, and inequality in sub-Saharan Africa. Third, she examines the drivers of food insecurity and undernutrition in Malawi.