Erica Joos
Manager, Educational Experiences
Focus: Individual Development
Erica Joos (she/her) serves as the Manager for Educational Experiences with a focus on individual development. In this role, she is responsible for a portfolio of professional learning projects.
Erica is a passionate and mission-driven practitioner with over 10 years’ experience building human agency through education. Motivated by collective healing, justice, joy, and social transformation, she leverages her background in human development, experiential and global education, and the expressive arts to facilitate interdisciplinary programs that connect people with the systems in and around them.
As a systems-thinker, Erica takes an integrative approach in her many roles. Before arriving to the CG collective, she lived in Colorado and served as the Arts Director for an arts integration elementary school, Arts Commissioner for the City of Boulder where she collaborated with and advocated for artists and arts organizations to improve cultural inclusivity in the community, and apprenticed in embodied leadership and the somatic arts. She recently graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she worked hands-on with professionals from all over the world and focused on international education policy and analysis, cognitive neuroscience, learning design, and organizational leadership. Erica currently continues her interdisciplinary path as a curriculum developer and facilitator for One World and MIT Sloan and fuels her passion and creativity in building meaningful partnerships, snowboarding, dancing, writing, singing, and paddling. She also holds an MA in Educational Psychology from University of Colorado Denver and a BA in International Affairs and International Journalism from University of Colorado Boulder.
Location: New York, New York, USA