Erica Gibson is from Atlanta, Georgia originally and moved up to New York to attend Adelphi University. She is a third-year senior Psychology major with a double minor in Ethics, Law, & Justice and Criminal Justice. Erica is in the Emerging Scholars research program at Adelphi, a prestigious organization for those in her field. There she studies “Why Do People Recidivate?”, to work in stride with her career goals of becoming a criminal reform psychologist. She wants to restructure the current landscape of criminal reform to help eliminate the issue of recidivism. 

She is the Volunteer Coordinator of Adelphi’s Panther Pantry, the free on-campus resource for food, clothing and toiletries. Under her leadership the Pantry released their first ever digital cookbook: “SweetPea’s Cookbook.”  The cookbook’s recipes exclusively use products that can be found within the Panther Pantry. 

Erica is the President of the Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society. This society commits itself to completing acts of service that help both their community and those that surround them. She has volunteered over 350 service hours. Her volunteering sites include the Veterans Hospital, local womens’ shelters, and the Tanglewood Nature Preserve. 

She founded the Accessibility Committee within the Student Government Association during her 2nd year as Executive Secretary. This committee helped to pave pathways across several monumental locations on the campus. Now, in her position as the Vice President of External Affairs, she continues her work with the committee to update the quality of several ramps and install new ramp banisters.