In addition to her work as co-founder of Out of Architecture, Erin Pellegrino is the founder and principal of Matter, a design/build studio that explores design problems through graphic design, furniture, and smallscale architectural work. Matter has completed award-winning projects in architecture, product and brand design, and has been recognized globally. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, a Master of Architecture II from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and an MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology. Erin has been recognized with an Autodesk BuildSpace Fellowship, First Prize in the 2021 Rethinking the Future Design Awards, an AIA New England Design Honor Award, a Core77 Design Award in Built Environment, two Architizer A+ Awards, a Paul M. Heffernan International Fellowship, and a nomination for the EU Mies Van der Rohe Award. Her work on Alpine Shelter Skuta was featured on the cover of Phaidon Press’s publication Environmental Living. Early in her career, she trained in the offices of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects and Studio Gang. Erin is also a Visiting Lecturer at Cornell University and leads design/ build studio and fabrication courses at New Jersey Institute of Technology. In 2018, NCARB named Erin their inaugural Scholar of Professional Practice, recognizing her commitment to incorporating issues of ethics and equity into architectural training. Cornell then recruited her to redesign and teach the department’s Professional Practice course, where she merges the course’s traditional curriculum with a consideration of issues like fair pay, self-efficacy, and gender and racial disparities in the profession.