Who is Erica anyway?

Erica Vogel has spent the majority of her life solving a wide variety of trials and tribulations as both a closeted and out transgender woman. Drawing from her experiences, her education, and her interactions with thousands of transgender people, she provides a point of view focused on personal agency as a transgender individual. Described as resilient, authentic, and fearless, she meets people where they are with grace and warmth.

Erica is currently serving as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of Equality Loudoun.

Erica is a twenty-year design and product management technology veteran of startups to Fortune 25 companies with a master's degree in Business Leadership and Management and a DEI certification. She is queer, a wife, a parent, and a member of a family with strong LGBTQIA roots. Her recent tenures in tech also include serving on the national leadership team of corporate LGBTQIA employee resource groups with 5,000 members and as a board member of a transgender-focused tech non-profit. She is a frequent public speaker on trans affairs in and out of workplaces across the United States.

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What has Erica been reading?

The Risk it Takes to Bloom - Raquel Willis

How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi

If You Can’t Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury - Geraldine DeRuiter

Unprotected: a Memoir - Billy Porter

A Place For Us: a Memoir - Brandon J. Wolf

Heartstopper - Alice Oseman

ain’t i a woman - bell hooks

Whipping Girl - Julia Serrano

To My Trans Sisters - Charlie Craggs

Erica’s favorite things:

  • My partner Melissa

  • A Caramel Macchiato

  • Intersectional Feminism

  • Melissa’s homemade chocolate chip cookies

  • Agency

  • Side Car cocktails

  • Star Wars

  • Chocolate Cake

  • Trans Joy

  • Christmas

  • Travel

  • Period Drama shows & movies

Hire Erica

For more information please reach out to Erica below.

  • Erica offers consulting services on DEIB and LGBTQ2SIA topics, specializing in transgender initiatives, with a focus on intersectionalism and anti-racist points of view in the workplace.

    ~ Workplace education on transgender experiences

    ~ Equity in the workplace

    ~ LGBTQ2SIA inclusive hiring, retainment, and advancement practices

    ~ Employee Resource Group strategy and planning

    ~ Pride campaigns & LGBTQ2SIA inclusive marketing

    ~ Pride history and culture

    ~ High Tech Leadership

    ~ Transformational Initiatives

    ~ Culture Change

  • Erica has been a public speaker for years in groups ranging from 10 to 5000 people online and on stage. She shares her perspectives and personal experiences rooted in understanding the needs of the LGBTQ2SIA community in a way that is approachable and light while being a call to action. Her expertise includes: 

    ​~ LGBTQ2SIA identities, inclusion & equity

    ~ Transgender & non-binary experiences, inclusivity & equity 

    ~ LGBTQ2SIA history and culture 

    ~ High Tech Leadership

    ~ Transformational Initiatives

    ~ Culture Change

  • Erica has mentored hundreds of people, from frontline employees to CEOs, on LGBTQ2SIA experiences and culture. She leads with safety, warmth, approachability, and education focused on practical application that leads to beneficial change.

  • Erica currently serves on the board of an international Transgender tech-focused non-profit. Please reach out to her for consideration of tenure on your board.

Upcoming events

  • The Connext Exchange

    March 6 2025 Erica chats with Rebecca Desjardins on The Connext Exchange

  • Be THE Glitter podcast

    March 28 Erica will sit down with Laura Paisley Beck to talk authenticity.

Previous Events

2025

2024

2023

2023 Continued

2022

  • 10/19/22 - Out & Equal 2022 Summit - Panelist