As founder and creative director of Escape Brooklyn, Escape Los Angeles, and Escape Club, Erin has led all design, photography, and editorial direction for a multi-platform brand that reaches hundreds of thousands of readers each year.
Escape Brooklyn
A decade of travel and design storytelling rooted in Upstate New York
Blending photography, local culture, and hospitality, Escape Brooklyn has become one of the region’s most trusted voices in travel and design. Across its digital ecosystem — EscapeBrooklyn.com, the Escape Club newsletter, the Escape Club app, and social media — the brand connects with about 675K annual explorers.
Together, these four channels reach a combined audience of 106K Instagram followers with over 6M annual content views, 15K newsletter subscribers, and 700K annual page views and interactions on EscapeBrooklyn.com.
Built gradually and intentionally over the past decade, Escape Brooklyn bridges storytelling, photography, and design — turning a love of place into a lasting creative platform.
Escape Club
A travel platform spanning editorial, discovery, and booking
Escape Club began as a newsletter in 2023 and expanded in 2025 with the launch of a curated travel web app. Together, they form a two-part platform combining editorial insight with practical trip planning for travelers who want to connect deeper during travel.
The Escape Club newsletter reaches more than 15K subscribers and anchors the platform editorially, with weekly coverage across travel and real estate, paid subscriber features, and member-only partner offers.
The Escape Club web app translates that point of view into a planning tool, featuring a tightly edited mix of design-forward hotels and vacation rentals with real-time availability and smart filters.
Together, the newsletter and app create a single ecosystem built on curation, local knowledge, and thoughtful travel.
Escape Los Angeles
Design, travel, and culture from the West Coast and beyond
Launched as the West Coast counterpart to Escape Brooklyn, Escape Los Angeles (or Escape L.A.) explores the creative intersections of architecture, landscape, and design-driven travel throughout California and the American West. In the way that Escape Brooklyn is primarily focused on the Catskills and Hudson Valley, Escape Los Angeles has a primary focus on the Joshua Tree and surrounding High Desert region.
Currently on pause, the platform is slated to return in 2026 with renewed focus on regional storytelling and the creative culture of the Southwest and Pacific Coast.
Photography
Studies in light, design, and place
Photography is the throughline across this body of work. Connecting design, travel, and storytelling through a shared attention to light and landscape. From architecture and hospitality to quiet personal studies, the images explore how we interact with and experience place.