About
Erica Jacqueline Licht has spent her over fifteen-year career working with organizations and communities to build a more just and engaged society.
Licht is a faculty member at the Harvard Extension School, where she teaches equitable institutional transformation, and most recently served as a Director at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, where she led projects, partnerships, and convenings on accountable and effective organizational change.
Prior, Licht served as assistant director at the Center on Culture, Race, and Equity in New York City and as a Fellow with Race Forward and the Government Alliance for Racial Equity (GARE). Her decade of global consulting includes the Center for Creative Leadership, Ethiopia; Lemann Foundation, Brazil; and Lagos State University, Nigeria.
Licht is a Fulbright Scholar and holds a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School as well as a Master in Justice Policy from the London School of Economics, where she was a Maguire Fellow.
She has taught coursework at the Harvard Kennedy School and University of the West Indies, Mona. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, CNN, and The Conversation on Higher Education (John Hopkins University Press, 2025). She co-hosted the podcast Untying Knots from 2020-2025.
