emiles26@nul.org

Erica serves as an Executive Director at Wells Fargo, building relationships with national strategic partners who represent financial services firms and financial policy advocates around the United States.  On behalf of Wells Fargo, she previously served as Chair of the Strategic Advisory Council of the National Bankers Association, an industry trade group that represents mission-driven institutions.

Prior to joining Wells, Erica served as the Director of Diversity and Inclusion for the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, leading work for the Congress’ first ever Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion. Before her time on Capitol Hill, she was a Senior Analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, where she led and contributed to various reviews of the financial market and housing sectors including nonbank mortgage servicing, access to banking services in border Southwest communities and homeless assistance. Prior to that, she supervised credit and collections departments for regional and large national banks.

In addition to roles as a diversity and inclusion training facilitator, Erica was a member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Committee at the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics, where she also received her MBA in 2001. Erica’s hometown is Memphis, Tennessee, where she completed her undergraduate degree in Political Science at the University of Memphis.

As a current resident in Washington, D.C., she served as a Commissioner on the mayor’s Financial Services Regulatory Sandbox and Innovation Council that advised D.C. government on ways to attract and promote FinTech innovation in their community.

Erica is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and participates in its Alpha Beta Upsilon Omega chapter, which serves the Southeast and Southwest communities in Washington, D.C.