Erin Becker-Boris is the Assistant Director of the Huntington Learning Center in Patchogue, NY. Her historical research focuses on the convergence of women, labor, and the environment. Her work in education grapples with investing local peoples in their resources (historical, environmental, and archaeological) as stakeholders through outreach, museum education, classroom enrichment, and the development of new public programming. She is the co-host of the podcast Scholars Beyond the Tower: Conversations from Our Field.