Erin Lorencz was born and raised on a farm in the thumb of Michigan. Before college, she traveled to Kenya, where she first was given an opportunity to work with refugees. She attended Grand Valley State University, during which time she spent a summer teaching in India. She received her BA in Philosophy before spending her year prior to medical school working on airstrip construction and other development projects with an aviation NGO In Madagascar. She attended Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and enrolled in the Leadership in Medicine for the Underserved program, which took her to Flint, MI. During medical school, Erin led the Refugee Health student elective and worked as a research assistant for a pediatric HIV and neurodevelopment project in Uganda. Returning to Uganda, she completed a rotation with the Foundation for the Medical Relief of Children as well as one working with obstetric fistula patients. She finished her residency program at the Mountain Area Health Education Center in the lush and beautiful mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, where she was active in helping develop the substance abuse in pregnancy program. Her interests include access to emergency obstetric care in under-resourced settings, prevention and treatment of obstetric fistula, and substance abuse in pregnancy. Erin was a fellow at Gallup Indian Medical Center in Gallup, NM and at the Tribal Health Initiative in Sittilingi, India.