Erika has 10 years of experience working on new early-stage energy technologies. This started with work as a systems engineer at DRS Technologies where she led the development of energy, water, and waste technologies including off-grid waste-to-energy systems, water transport technologies, and energy efficiency improvements for water packaging systems. She gained experience in wind energy while doing computational fluid dynamics consulting work in the Netherlands when Accelerate Wind was born. Erika is a Fulbright Scholar, a Drawdown Climate Fellow, and a named inventor on 3 patents.