Erin joins the Seed team to scale its ecommerce platform and to create educational, empowering, and wondrous experiences for its customers.

She is deeply passionate about cultivating an intuitive experience across each customer touchpoint—this means positioning the user at the center of every conversation within the business, including how it acquires, retains, and services its customers through URL and IRL.

Erin is a startup enthusiast, thriving on quick deadlines, new possibilities, right-brain thinkers, and driving impact. She formerly led Member Experience at Spring, Inc (acquired by Shoprunner in 2018) and Aaptiv, Inc. Erin studied Spanish and History at Denison University, and on weekends you can find her running along Venice beach wishing she was agile enough to surf with the locals.

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In conversation with Erin:

Six word story of your life.
Moved places, found spaces, untied laces.

What was your first brush with science?
The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. If you haven’t been, you must check it out.

Why do you think bacteria are important?
Bacteria have resided on our planet for over 3.7 billion years, spanning approximately 85% of our planet’s history. Human life only represents 0.001%.

How do you define science?
Knowledge and understanding of the universe and everything within it.

How do you define health?
Listening to your body and questioning how you care for it.

What are you currently reading / listening / watching?
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

Favorite microbiome-nurturing food?
Greek yogurt

Scientist, dead or alive, you’d like to eat with?
Jane Goodall

Microbiome perturbation you’re trying to give up.
Sugar 🤭

Favorite science joke or best mindgasm fact?
There are more bacteria in your gut than there are stars in our galaxy.

One fact most people don’t know about you:
I’m fluent in Spanish.

Social channels?
@eringusty