Erinn co-founded SCALEAfrica with Guy Baron in 2008 after visiting Mfuwe, Zambia and seeing the tremendous need for safe, well-designed schools in this rural area. Since that time, they have built the organization from the ground up, using their backgrounds in architecture and finance, respectively, to impact the futures of children in Mfuwe. She feels lucky to channel her architectural background into working for and with the “clients” that need it most.
She is also a licensed architect and Owner/Principal of SCALEStudio in New York City. By balancing work with private clients and non-profit institutions, her studio seeks to transform the traditional model of architectural practice into one that is inclusive and democratic.
She previously worked with Robert Frear Architects and Michael Goldman Architects of New York City on high-end residences and with Kallmann, McKinnell, & Wood Architects of Boston on large-scale civic and institutional projects.
Erinn has acted as guest reviewer and lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, the School of Visual Arts, Smith College, and Binghamton University, entreating students to consider architecture as both a personal, creative act and one rooted in decision-making with a social conscience.
Her work with various firms has been published in Architecture, Architectural Record, Period Homes, and House and Garden Magazines. An article on her current work was featured in the Emerging Architect section of Architectural Record in October 2010.
Erinn received a B.A. from Smith College in 1994 where she majored in Architecture. She received her Master of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. She lives with her husband & SCALEAfrica co-founder, Guy Baron, in Brooklyn with their almost three-year old twins.
