Erin Myers

Erin C. Myers Madeira is the former captain of the sailing vessel Makulu II and led a 3-year educational expedition and global circumnavigation. She currently specializes in the role of forests in mitigating climate change. She is a former editor for Blue Water Sailing magazine and contributor to Soundings magazine. She is a graduate of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Dartmouth College.

Erin Chamberlin Myers was born on December 2, 1977 to Mary Anne Hinckley Myers and F. Leonard Myers. She was raised in Norwood, Massachusetts with her twin brother, Benjamin T. Myers, and younger brother, Michael H. B. Myers. In 1996, she graduated valedictorian from Norwood High School and went on to pursue a degree in geography from Dartmouth College, where she was active on the Dartmouth College sailing team, becoming captain and earning recognition as an Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association All-American for three years in a row. She graduated Cum Laude in 2000. In 2008 Erin completed a master's degree at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management [1] at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In 2008 Erin married Josh Madeira.

She also has a step mother, Tammy McMichael, and three younger step sisters, Alexandria, Olivia and Madeline Hallam.

Erin learned to sail in a 12' bullseye sailboat during summers in Southwest Harbor, Maine, on Mount Desert Island. She worked on a commercial schooner, the Rachel B. Jackson, and later on the SSV Westward, SSV Corwith Cramer, and SSV Tole Mour.

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