Erica is a PHP developer for Ball State University's Center for Business and Economic Research in Muncie, Indiana. She's been programming websites for fun for most of her life and started programming professionally in 2015. Mainly, because he is pedantic and unimaginative, he enjoy refactoring.Erica has lived in maybe a dozen cities in her lifetime and believe in the web as the second great equalizer between socioeconomic classes and regional variants.

Outside of programming, she is passionate about making life in the Rust Belt good for *everyone* in the Rust Belt. Recently, her family and she have spent several weeks rehabbing an abandoned structure and turning it into a community space; we'll soon be using it to offer free pregnancy tests and options counseling, hold group harm reduction and recovery sessions, and host Muncie's Food Not Bombs chapter. I'm one part of a two-part acoustic alt-country duo called *Ripped From the Roots*. The most important, rewarding, terrifying, and frequently-sticky thing in her life is her four-year-old daughter. Without her, none of this would be worth it.