Erika Giampietro serves as Senior Advisor, Higher Education, at Empower Schools, leading the organization’s emerging Early College team. Erika works both in MA on standalone projects and in zone-synergistic projects across Empower’s portfolio. The Early College team is focused on building strong policy conditions for Early College expansion within states as well as working directly with Early College programs to increase their scale and depth of programming.

Before joining Empower Schools, Erika worked in the Boston Public Schools for seven years serving in a variety of roles, including Deputy CFO, Interim CFO, and Special Assistant to the Superintendent. While at BPS, Erika oversaw the district’s $1B budget, led negotiations for a $2B contract with the Boston Teachers Union, facilitated strategic planning for the Superintendent, and co-authored a long term financial plan for the district. Prior to joining BPS, Erika was Managing Director of Strategy for Teach For America’s national Teacher Support team, where she led the organization’s national effort to design the first fully centralized online system for performance management. Erika began her career as a management consultant with the Monitor Group. Erika has a B.S. in Business from The University of Virginia and an executive education certificate from the Harvard Business School. She is based in Boston, Massachusetts.