As the Executive Director of DuraSpace, Erin provides strategic leadership and vision for DuraSpace initiatives, partnerships, and hosted services. She works in collaboration with academic, scientific, cultural, technology, and research communities toward the stewardship of community-supported open technology projects that provide long-term, durable access to and discovery of digital assets.

Erin joined the DuraSpace team in 2017 after working in the Islandora open source software (OSS) repository community, planning, implementing, and managing projects for dozens of organizations.

Prior to working in OSS, Erin graduated from the University of King’s College (BJH), worked as a broadcast journalist with CTV Globemedia, and graduated from the Dalhousie University School of Information Management (MLIS) where she won the Outstanding Service Award in 2011.