Erica King, MSW, is a Senior Manager with the Center for Effective Public Policy. She directs the National Resource Center for Justice Involved Women. She develops pathways to increased safety and well-being with and for directly impacted women, nonbinary people, staff, and systems working with them. Before joining CEPP, Erica worked for two decades as Senior Policy Associate at the University of Southern Maine and consultant with Orbis Partners, leading efforts to strengthen trauma informed, gender-responsive, evidence-based policy and practice strategies. Erica is a 2022 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, co-leading an inside-outside public humanities curriculum on the themes of accountability, forgiveness, liberation and healing. Erica brings hard knowledge into her relational work with people to inform how data and lived experience can drive meaningful conversations and intentional decisions to improve community health, well-being, and vitality.