Erica Mosca is a teacher, a nonprofit founder, the CEO of her own consulting company and the first Filipina in the Nevada Legislature. Inspired by her own experiences growing up as a person of color and attending seven different schools, Mosca seeks to support and empower Southern Nevada students and families so that all individuals have the opportunity to work hard and to afford and achieve their dreams.
Mosca joined Teach for America in East Las Vegas in 2008 as a fifth grade teacher. Four years later, she founded the nonprofit Leaders in Training to help those kids, then ninth graders, succeed in their pursuits of secondary education. Many of them now work in the community as teachers, journalists, physician assistants and in other professions. The nonprofit, started with Mosca’s own savings of less than $2,000, had an annual budget of half a million dollars ten years later.
As part of her work with the Legislature, Mosca is the AANHPI Legislative Caucus Chair, supporting Southern Nevada’s diverse Asian community, and the Vice Chair of the Nonprofit Legislative Caucus. She is also an avid fan of J. Cole, rompers and Thai Cuisine on Nellis Boulevard and Bonanza Road.