Erica Bouris is a senior director in the ASA Center for Career Navigation at JFF. She leads the center’s integrated strategy of advancing access to quality career navigation through strengthening the capacity of practitioners and other stakeholders, activating place-based work, driving alignment between policy and research, and advancing the role of youth voice. 

Her skills and areas of expertise include: 

• Career navigation and workforce development  
• Building the capacity of stakeholders to design, fund, and deliver high-quality programs 
• Leading an integrated impact strategy that braids together practice, research, system strengthening and policy to drive economic opportunity  
• Solutions-design and implementation at the federal, state, and local level 
• Practice and policy-oriented research and evaluation 

Before joining JFF, Bouris was the senior director of economic empowerment at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) where she led a portfolio of economic opportunity work that included direct services to more than 35,000 individuals annually. She also led a robust portfolio of technical assistance, research, and policy initiatives that advanced economic opportunity across the United States and Europe. 

Educational background:  

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, University of Denver 
• MBA, University of Denver 
• PhD in international studies, University of Denver