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 works with The Nature Conservancy supporting collaborations between the conservation sector and Indigenous Peoples. She is a former editor for Blue Water Sailing magazine, contributor to Soundings magazine, U.S. Fulbright Fellow.,[1] and Program Fellow at Resources for the Future.[2][3][4] She is a graduate of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Dartmouth College.
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 sail training vessels SSV Westward, SSV Corwith Cramer, and SSV Tole Mour. Erin raced competitively at Dartmouth College, earning recognition as an Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association All-American for three years in a row [5] and part of the team winning the ICSA Women's Dinghy Championship in 2000.