Erica is originally from California and moved to Scotland in 2019, where she completed her MFA in Documentary Film Directing at the University of Edinburgh in 2021. She has a background in cultural anthropology, fine art, and world religions, having completed an MA in Medical Anthropology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, a BA in World Religions from California State University, Sacramento, studies in Conceptual Studio Arts at Metafora Studios in Barcelona, Spain, and studies in Buddhist Studies at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute and monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal.

In 2021, she co-founded IMPRINT Documentary Collective with Marta Massa, a female-led filmmaking collective focusing on embodiment and the body in documentary. Through IMPRINT, she teaches workshops, produces grassroots short documentaries, and programmes community screenings through the lens of the body politic in documentary film: @imprint.documentaries

Her own filmic practice takes the form of essay, social issue, hybrid, and experimental documentaries, as well as video/multimedia installations and visual and medical ethnographic research. She is passionate about interdisciplinarity and has a wide variety of topical interests, and has worked internationally since 2015. Specifically, she is interested in the health/culture relationship, the body, intimacy, and phenomenology, gender and queer studies, human/environmental relationships, and the transformative experiences of art, dance, and creativity. She is particularily interested in cultures and regions surrounding the Mediterranean, South Asia, and North America.

Her first documentary short, There's Not Much We Can Do, is a personal essay film that explores the director's experience of getting diagnosed with endometriosis, alongside the story of the invasive plant the Japanese knotweed. The film was commissioned by the Scottish Documentary Institute and Screen Scotland as part of the 2022 Brdging the Gap Scheme. It premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2022.

Her second short documentary, i was born in the month of the moon (What My Body Told Me), is an experimental foray into the memories our bodies hold, and the conversations with them that become possible when we pause for long enough to hear them.

She has produced short creative documentaries for emerging directors, including M(OTHER)HOOD by Bea Goddard, The Place Between Was & Will Be by Theo Panagopoulos, and What Remains by Marta Massa, which have gone on to screen at BFI Flare, Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, and Sarajevo Film Festival, respectively.

She is currently in development for her first feature length creative documentary on queerness in nature.

Her emails are open to collaborations as a director in the UK, USA, and Europe, as well as to inquiries about collaborating on interdisciplinary art and research projects.