About

Erika Lucille Ewing is an artivist, consultant, speaker, and cultural architect whose work lives at the intersection of art, activism, and civic life. A proud Smith College alumna and MFA graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, she has spent 25 years building programs and designs that use creativity as a tool for transformation, social change, civic engagement, advocacy, and justice.

From serving as Chief of Staff of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York to co-producing the historic Black Lives Matter mural on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, and from performing on the world-famous Apollo stage at the Women of the World Festival, where she told stories about women's identity, self-love, and surviving self-abandonment and abuse, to advocating for trauma-informed discovery laws for domestic violence survivors in New York State, Erika has consistently shown up where her voice is needed.

Her fashion-activism brand, Got To Stop LLC, has been featured in Vogue.com, recognized by NBCOUT, and cited in the Psychology of Radical Healing Syllabus as a tool for liberation and healing. She is the subject of two documentaries, Color Is Not Crime and An American Street Mural In Harlem, as well as the short film and spoken word poetry piece Make Me A Doorway. She is also a union actor and voiceover artist, a proud member of Actors' Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA.

As a curriculum developer, educator, and facilitator, Erika has created programs that have reached schools and communities across New York City and beyond. As a consultant and speaker, she brings 25 years of lived experience and documented impact to every engagement.