Erin C. Myers Madeira is the former captain of the sailing vessel Makulu II and led a 3-year educational expedition and global circumnavigation.
[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.
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.
[7] The expedition members researched environmental science, geography, and livelihood topics and created curricular content for partner classrooms in the United States.