Erin Barnes

Erin Barnes is an environmental writer and former community organizer who co-founded ioby.org, a non-profit organization that connects people and money to site-based projects, such as urban gardens and bike initiatives, using “crowd-resourcing.” Before that, she earned her master’s of environmental management in water science at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, was the environmental editor at Men’s Journal, did field research on the socioeconomic values of water in the Brazilian Amazon and worked as a public information officer for Save Our Wild Salmon. Along with serving as executive director at ioby.org, Barnes sits on the board of directors for the Manhattan Land Trust, which manages urban community gardens.