Herrington is best known for being the founder of the project and foundation Stop Straatintimidatie, an initiative seeking to criminalize street harassment in the Netherlands, and for her activism and research on sustainability issues.
Herrington has worked in senior sustainability-related positions for De Nederlandsche Bank, KPMG US and Schneider Electric and holds master's degrees in both econometrics and sustainability studies.
[3] After obtaining her master's degree in econometrics, she initially worked in the financial sector before becoming disillusioned[3] and in 2007[4] she instead became the executive director of StoereVrouwen,[3] a non-profit[5] Dutch women's movement promoting sustainable economic policies through "fresh and hip" activism.
[3][4] Following the aftermath of the Great Recession, Herrington returned to the financial sector in 2011 as an international policymaker and economic policy advisor for De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) in Amsterdam.
[11] From 2016 to 2017 Herrington wrote articles for Vileine, a Dutch-language feminist platform for media, political and cultural analysis, detailing her personal experiences in the United States.
[1][6] Herrington's master's thesis was published in November 2020[6][12] and was an analysis based on the 1972 sustainability report The Limits to Growth in Yale University's Journal of Industrial Ecology.
In particular, the 2020 study examined updated quantitative information about ten factors, namely population, fertility rates, mortality rates, industrial output, food production, services, non-renewable resources, persistent pollution, human welfare, and ecological footprint, and concluded that the Limits to Growth prediction is essentially correct in that continued economic growth is unsustainable under a "business as usual" scenario.
The study found that current empirical data is broadly consistent with the 1972 projections, and that if major changes to the consumption of resources are not undertaken, economic growth will peak and then rapidly decline by around 2040.
[21] Herrington initially surrounded herself with a small number of supporters, including a social media manager, an attorney who authored the proposed bill, Cees Flinterman (a professor emeritus of human rights) and Soundos El Ahmadi [nl] (a famous Dutch comedian).