Erica is a graduate of Stanford University, where she majored in International Relations and minored in Economics and Modern Languages (French and Arabic). She served as Stanford’s student body president her senior year, a job that fueled her passion for public service. Erica will spend her first year as a Marshall Scholar at SOAS studying Near and Middle Eastern Studies, followed by a year at the University of Edinburgh studying the intersection of race and national identity,. In the future, she hopes to combine her passions for politics and foreign languages by working in U.S. foreign policy.