Emerald’s penchant for justice and abolition work began early in life. While growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, she spent a number of weekends helping to feed the homeless population in the downtown area and traveling through the Southeastern United States visiting and exploring various prisons and detention centers. When she attended Georgia Southern University, where she majored in Philosophy, Emerald really began to understand and connect with growing gaps in the education system and those stuck in carceral and poverty cycles. 

Once completing her undergraduate career, Emerald went on to serve two volunteer years with City Year New Hampshire, and to, later, serve as the Recruitment Manager for three years. It was at City Year New Hampshire that Emerald met her future husband and started developing her understanding of community organizing and equity strategy for marginalized and historically pillaged communities. Most recently, Emerald served as a co-founder of the City Year Office of Equity, later serving as the Managing Director of Diversity & Equity Strategy. In 2017 Emerald received her certification as a Racial Equity Strategy from the Disruptive Education Equity Program out of Harvard University and is a trained Adaptive Schools facilitator. Since then, Emerald has served as a Chief Diversity Officer for a statewide non-profit agency, created various programs that support diverse high school students in their journey of social engagement, and served on boards of directors lending her expertise in various areas of commerce and service.

In 2019, Emerald founded Communities Reaching for Equity and Diversity (CRED), a 100% BIPOC woman and femme lead social equity consultant group. CRED has worked with numerous nonprofit and government agencies, for-profit companies, and start-ups. The most notable partnerships include multiple-day design and facilitation for Concord, New Hampshire, school district educators and a multiple-year anti-racist consultant agreement with the Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership Program at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. In 2022, CRED was awarded the New Hampshire Business Review’s Best in Business for Social Equity award.

Emerald is a traveling philosopher and alchemist specializing in abolition and Black liberation work. She’s a member of the founding team of Village MKE in Milwaukee, WI. Village MKE elevates community-based organizations focused on meeting the needs of the Black community and supporting Black-led organizations and businesses in building the social capital needed to be successful. She is also a recurring bi-weekly columnist for the Manchester Ink Link. In this local Manchester, NH publication, she educates on and elevates conversations pertaining to the Black diaspora in the Granite State and beyond. She currently lives as a Global nomad with her husband and two daughters, while working to build the Liberation Nexus Lab.

Erin works as a social impact strategist throughout the country. As the founder of Allgood Strategies, Erin seeks to create a more equitable and sustainable future by helping organizations articulate their vision and align their strategy for social impact and sustainability. As a strategist and consultant, Erin helps socially-conscious organizations with DEIB services, strategic planning, leadership development, and collective impact. Erin has a knack for understanding and intervening in systems to create greater impact from her background in systems thinking and practical experience in her consulting work.  

One of Erin’s greatest strengths as a facilitator is her ability to design processes that bring out new and different perspectives and strengthen ties between participants. She is skilled at building avenues for honest feedback and deep learning as well as translating the findings into actionable next steps. Additionally, Erin centers her work in anti-oppression principles and has experience facilitating conversations around difficult topics, such as racism and misogyny. In 2020, she designed and facilitated a series of retreats assisting an organization in addressing white supremacy culture within their internal practices and shifting to a distributed leadership model.  

Erin has spent a decade working as a consultant to nonprofit organizations. Erin’s current/recent clients include: ACLU NH, The Nature Conservancy, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, West Warwick Health Equity Zone, Youth Success Project, the Forward Foundation, New Hampshire Harm Reduction Coalition, New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire, Lovering Health Center, New Hampshire Youth Movement, Gather, Seacoast Food Providers Network, Arlington Eats, Arlington Center for the Arts, Food Link, Grow Food Northampton, Concord Carlisle Community Chest, ROC USA, Cobblestone Project, Riverkeeper, Gundalow Company, the Strafford Regional Planning Commission, the Piscataqua Region Estuary Partnership, and a cohort of land trusts in Maine. 

Erin has training in facilitation through the Interaction Institute for Social Change and in understanding racial equity through the Leadership Learning Exchange for Equity through the Endowment for Health. In 2022, Erin completed the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging for Consultants program through TSNE and the Institute for Nonprofit Practice. Erin teaches at the University of New Hampshire in the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics in the Business in Practice Program and is a frequent collaborator of the Center for Women and Enterprise in New Hampshire. 

Erin is a recent fellow in the Leadership for Sustainability program (UVM), holds a Masters's degree in Nutritional Sciences (UNH), a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry (Wheaton College MA), and certificates in Sustainable Food Systems and Sustainable Business. Her consulting career started in food systems and has evolved to focus on organizations creating significant social impact through their work and doing it in a way that centers on principles of justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and sustainability. Erin currently resides in the Seacoast region of NH where she volunteers as an advisor to progressive organizations such as Post-Landfill Action Network and 350NH. She is a community partner to the Affirming Spaces Project, an organization dedicated to helping local businesses and organizations create more welcoming and affirming spaces for all. Erin is a former member of the City of Dover Planning Board and is a graduate of Leadership Seacoast (class of 2016) and New Leaders Council (class of 2019).