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Dr Erica Anderson is a clinical psychologist and transgender woman. She spent more than 50 years living as male, was married, fathered and reared two children with her wife Florence Kaye Anderson. In the course of a career involving University teaching, clinical practice,work as an Executive in the healthcare field, work as a consultant and executive coach, she lived and worked in the East coast (metropolitan New York City area), Phlladelphia, several areas in Southern California (i.e. Pasadena, Monrovia, and Laguna Niguel) and Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was born in the then Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis in the 1950's to her English/Speech teacher mother and advertising executive father, Elizabeth and Charles Anderson respectively. She transitioned to living as herself Erica in 2011 after living 55 years as Eric. Although at the time she was a member of the faculty and Department Chair (Health Sciences and Services/Healthcare Management) at Immaculata University ( A Catholic institution founded by the Immaculate Heart of Mary order of nuns) in consultation with her doctors and advisors she sought to switch Universities in order to complete her gender transition and personal transformation. As a result she was hired as the Chair of the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at John F. Kennedy University in California. She moved in 2012 to Oakland, California to start her new life in the Bay area. At JFKU she has served as the Chair of the PsyD (Doctor of Psychology) Program, Dean of the Graduate School, Uber Chair of the Graduate Psychology Programs, and more recently as Professor of Clinical Psychology. Since being in the Bay Area and completing her transition including surgeries, she has become more active in the LGBTQ communities and on social media, where she regularly blogs about issues having to do with sexuality, gender, and identity. As she has been able she is active in a variety of organizations from the American Psychological Association (Commission on Accreditation), American Transpersonal Psychology Association, and a peer group of mental health professionals who specialize in work with transgender and gender nonconforming children and adolescents (i.e. Minding the Gap).

As a result of her professional success she has been listed in Who's Who in America for a huber of years as herself Erica, and previously for many years as Eric. She is among a small group of those listed who are transgender and have been listed with both male and female personae. She is writing actively now with several projects underway including a book on Trans Sexuality with collaborator Buck Angel, a film maker and sex educator. She is a collaborator with Pamela Madsen, a sex educator and author who conducts intensive sexuality workshops for women on three continents known as Back to the Body. She was selected for several upcoming media projects which will be unveiled later in 2016 and many expect her to achieve greater notoriety because of her professional credentials and personal experiences, which she shares regularly in her teaching and public speaking. She is preparing a TED talk to be filmed in the early fall of 2016. With Sela Annette Rice she is in preparation for the Dr Erica Show whose subjects will include sexuality, gender, and identity. She resides currently in Berkeley, California.