Erin’s passion for rescue came from her love of animals since she was a small child growing up outside of New York City. That interest originally took her to a career in Anthropology studying Primates at Emory University. While a PhD student at the University of Chicago she co-founded her first rescue group called S.A.B.R.E. – one of the first nation-wide feline breed-specific groups, after she and her boyfriend adopted a Somali cat named Zeke from The Anti-Cruelty Society in Chicago. Over the years her many rescue animals came with her as she moved from city to city and after changing careers from Anthropology to Business. She incorporated primates again when she backpacked solo around Africa after getting her MBA from UCLA. In addition to Chappy & Friends, she currently works with an organization called Paws Fur Hope in Los Angeles, where she lives with her current menagerie consisting of two rescue dogs, Fredo and Rocket, and a rescue tortoise named Fezzik.
