Board President
Growing up, Erin's family taught her to take pride in her immigrant heritage. Erin's paternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors who came to the United States as refugees after World War II. Her maternal grandfather immigrated here in the 1910s, fleeing violence and anti-semitism in Russia, and her maternal grandmother was born shortly after her great-grandparents arrived in this country. She thinks all of her grandparents would be proud of her work with PLAN. Erin is the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Erin's research focuses on fiscal federalism, including the allocation of revenue authority between state and local governments, local government law, and state tax law. Her scholarship has appeared in Stanford Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and the New York University Law Review, among other journals. As an expert on local fiscal authority, Scharff has written several amicus briefs on the legal authority of local governments to raise revenue under state constitutions. She has three rambunctious children.
What does reimagining immigrant justice mean to you?
Reimagining justice means pushing us beyond notions of fairness so that we are working to build a world in which we honor our responsibility to one another, the communities we come from, the communities in which we live, and our connections to communities throughout the world.