Erin Kunz, Information Specialist

Erin Kunz joined the Rural Health Information Hub in January 2022 as an Information Specialist.

In this role, Erin identifies and indexes resources to the RHIhub website, creating easy access for people seeking information on rural health-related issues. She provides assistance through our Resource and Referral Service, as well as writing and maintaining topic and state guides. Erin’s focuses are social determinants of health, chronic disease, and healthcare access. She also acts as the liaison to states in the central United States. This position allows Erin to use her background in English and her skill set in reading, writing, and researching.

Being from Mandan, North Dakota, as well as having extended family living in the western part of the state, Erin was drawn to RHIhub for its work on rural health awareness. She wanted to combine her passions of research and writing to directly impact rural residents.

In 2010, Erin received her bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of North Dakota. She received her master of arts in 2012 and earned a doctor of philosophy degree in educational foundations and research in 2016.

Prior to her position at RHIhub, Erin was an associate English professor at Mayville State University. While at Mayville, she also worked as director of the writing center and held the position of Chair of Liberal Arts. She focused on teaching and tutoring writing: specifically, composition and business writing. She has been published in St. Cloud State University’s Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine and is currently the director of a nonprofit community writing project called Voices of the Valley.

Contact Erin at 701.777.5874 or by email at erin@ruralhealthinfo.org.