About Erica

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Erica Roggeveen Byrne (she/her/hers) has been collaboratively building capacity with public-serving organizations since 2005. 

Over the course of her career, Erica has been focused on increasing equity in various fields, including health, housing, and education.  She works with organizations, staff, and stakeholders to identify how current power structures can be transformed through strategic thinking and targeted funding. 

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In 2005, Erica began her professional career at Latino Community Services, Inc, a small nonprofit in Hartford, CT that provides culturally responsive HIV prevention and care services primarily to marginalized populations. Over the next five years, she worked with the organization to significantly expand its HIV Prevention services, including securing the agency's first federal grants. She also led its internal strategic planning process and evaluation team. 

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In 2010, Erica established ERB Consulting and began offering consulting services to other nonprofits. These services have included grant writing, strategic planning, workshops/facilitation, and program evaluation.   Erica has completed training on Fundamentals of Facilitation for Racial Justice Work with the Interaction Institute for Social Change, as well as the Undoing Racism training with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB)

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In 2020, Erica became Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Health Administration & Policy at the University of New Haven, developing and teaching a seven-week course on Grant Writing in Public Health to Masters in Public Health students. 

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From 2020-2022, Erica worked for the CT General Assembly, staffing the Veterans' Affairs Committee and the Planning & Development Committee. In that role, she was responsible for developing and maintaining successful relationships with legislators, legislative staff, government agencies, external stakeholder groups, and lobbyists, as well as managing and tracking all proposed or raised bills through the legislative process.

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Born and raised in Connecticut, Erica received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College and a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies from Tulane University.  While at Bryn Mawr, Erica spent a semester at la Universidad de Chile in Santiago. Her graduate school course work included travel to Cuba to study their public health system, and fieldwork in El Salvador to collect data for her master's thesis on HIV prevention strategies, which addressed how gender power dynamics can be influenced to lead men to prioritize HIV prevention in their relationships with women. 

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She received her Grant Professionals Certification (GPC) through the Grant Professionals Association in 2009 and was re-certified in 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021.

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Disclaimer

ERB Consulting complies with the strict ethical standards set forth by the Grant Professionals Association (GPA) and never takes a commission from grant awards.  We do not work on a contingency basis and never build our fee into the grant request.

Click here for the GPA Code of Ethics.