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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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The Connext Exchange
March 6 2025 Erica chats with Rebecca Desjardins on The Connext Exchange
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Be THE Glitter podcast
March 28 Erica will sit down with Laura Paisley Beck to talk authenticity.
Previous Events
2025
01/23-25 Monika Kowalska interviews Erica
2024
11/17/2024 Queer Joy Summit keynote Making Room for Joy: Reclaiming the Lost Pieces of Yourself
11/13/24 AfYTA Book Launch
10/7/24 5 Things in 15 Minutes
9/10/24 Feminist Founders Podcast
6/25/24 Curious Monica Podcast
5/20/24 Gay with God Podcast
2023
12/14/23 Transcending Humanity Podcast ep32
8/25/23 - Queer & Now Podcast - Host
7/21/23 - Queer & Now Podcast - Host
2023 Continued
6/30/23 - Pride Panel with The Awkward Conversation Podcast
6/28/23 - Pride Keynote Trans and Thriving: a conversation at Capital One
6/23/23 - Queer & Now Podcast - Host
6/21/23 - Pride Keynote at Selby Jennings
6/9/23 - Pride Keynote: The History of Pride
5/17/23 - Trancending Humanity Podcast ep7
5/19/23 - Queer & Now Podcast - Host
5/3/23 - Trancending Humanity Podcast ep5
428/23 - Transcending Humanity Podcast Ep4
4/21/23 - Queer & Now Podcast - Host
4/20/23 - Transcending Humanity Podcast Ep 3
03/17/23 - Queer & Now Podcast - Host
3/8/23 - Women in Fintech for International Women’s Day - Speaker
02/20/23 - Queer & Now Podcast - Host
01/26/23 - Capital One Intersectionality Summit - EmCee
01/20/23 - Queer & Now Podcast - Host
2022
10/19/22 - Out & Equal 2022 Summit - Panelist