Erin Coryell

Erin Dearborn Coryell is responsible for the domestic disaster grantmaking for the Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies. She leads the planning and oversight for the portfolio of strategic grants that support nonprofit organizational readiness and community capacity. The domestic component focuses on ten states in the Midwest and grants support preparedness through long-term recovery. 

Before joining the Philanthropies, Coryell worked in field operations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Long-Term Community Recovery program and was deployed to disaster sites in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. She holds a master’s in historic preservation planning from Cornell University and a bachelor’s in art history from Bard College. Coryell attended Harvard University’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative. She is a qualified Architectural Historian under the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualification Standards.

She has served on the boards of several nonprofit organizations and remains actively involved in numerous committees and service commitments.