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Erica Walker Highlight
When you can be as outrageous as possible, you can be as creative as possible. And when you can be as creative as possible, you can do anything.
About Erica
- I grew up poor with little opportunity, which gave me the freeing mindset that everything is a bonus.
- I started my career as an artist, working as a furniture maker and a book binder.
- While working in my small basement studio, a very noisy family moved in above me—it caused me a huge amount of stress, so I started doing research and collecting data to get them evicted.
- Through that process of collecting data, I started learning more about other environmental stressors that people endure, which sparked my interest in public health.
- I decided to pivot into public health—I went back to school for my master’s degree in environmental economics and urban planning, followed by a doctorate in environmental health.
- I now work as an assistant professor of epidemiology at Brown University.
- I also founded Community Noise Lab, a research lab that explores the relationship between community noise and health.
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