Erica Burman – Communications

Director of Communications

The Gambia 1987-1989
Phone: (202) 293-7728 ext. 16
Email (preferred means of contact): news @ peacecorpsconnect.org
Facebook profile:  http://www.facebook.com/peacecorpsnews

In addition to editing WorldView magazine, Erica oversees all of NPCA’s communications, public relations, marketing, branding, and social media. She pioneered NPCA’s use of online communities and social media – establishing an early Peace Corps community presence on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and moving the organization to an electronic newsletter  – in an ongoing effort to connect the historically fragmented Peace Corps community and to better tell our stories.

Erica was a Peace Corps education Volunteer in The Gambia – the lone English teacher in a “maths” training group and one half of the group’s only couple. In the late 1990s she lived in Botswana, where her husband worked as Peace Corps staff for four years. Peace Corps is truly a family affair: her older daughter was 10 weeks old when the family moved to Gaborone and the younger was born there. While in Botswana, Erica consulted for World Resources Institute, World Learning/SIT and USAID.

Upon returning to the U.S., Erica pursued a career as a freelance writer before joining NPCA. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post and other publications. Prior to NPCA, Erica worked with National Wildlife Federation’s Corporate Conservation Council, the African environmental governance program of World Resources Institute (WRI), and as a researcher for a team of National Geographic documentary filmmakers developing a project on global population issues.

Erica holds a B.A. in International Relations from George Washington University and spent her junior year at the University of Munich. She obtained an M.A. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Erica grew up in Connecticut, but as a first generation American with a foot on each side of the Atlantic, she’s always had a global perspective. Newshound, blogger, keeper of old friends…writing and staying in touch are what she’s about.  She keeps good dark (Swiss) chocolate in her desk drawer and her iPhone nearby at all times.

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