Erika Block Email & Phone Number

United States

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Sticky Lab works with startups, growth stage companies, and community organizations at the intersection of strategy, business design, and leadership development. My consulting practice includes work with tech companies and tech-enabled businesses, marketplaces, platforms, food supply chains, climate and sustainability, local economies, new media, and.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

I am on the faculty of both the Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering and the Ross School of Business. For the CFE, I teach Creativity and Product Development and Entrepreneurship in the Age of AI. For Ross, I teach Integrated Product Development, an interdisciplinary course co-listed with the Stamps School of Art & Design and the.

Mentor companies in the Aspire ClimateTech program, the American-Made Solar Prize and the Egypt AIMS program. Lead Instructor and connector for the Michigan Ascend Energy & Mobility Accelerator.

A founder-led community of high-growth entrepreneurs committed to fellowship, cultural intention and funding solutions that uplift communities across the state where we live and operate. Members pledge 1% of equity, carry or profit to support impactful local organizations throughout the state who are doing the work to better our communities and enrich.

Planet Detroit is a community-driven environmental and public health news publication. Our aim is to raise Metro Detroit residents’ awareness about critical environmental and public health issues that impact their communities. Our mission is: Hold power accountable. Uncover solutions. Reflect and serve the community.We believe the environment is the most.

Investing in and supporting early-stage companies led by diverse founding teams working to address climate change, improve health, and expand economic opportunity.Learn more: https://www.stickylab.com/investing/

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Greater Detroit Area

Saganworks is an immersive knowledge management platform that works the way our brains work, tapping into the power of visual and spatial memory to organize, contextualize and make use of our digital knowledge.The tools we currently use to save our digital information rely on our ability to remember a keyword, or how we tagged it, or what folder we put it.

Ann Arbor

Local Orbit is the supply chain platform for people who are creating a new, connected food economy. Local Orbit’s infrastructure enables buyers to efficiently purchase from local farmers, food makers & aggregators, while maintaining complete supply chain transparency. We power local marketplaces and supply chain networks in 32 states and provinces.

• I helped people without a lot of time or technology experience understand how online tools could support their business goals and processes. I worked with organizations to develop affordable, manageable strategies that.
• Early planning and proposal writing for a viral community action project that raised over $250,000 for Barack Obama in one minute.
• Market & regulatory research and feasibility planning to establish a credit union for under-served communities.
• Developing a blog strategy and content plan for a technology company.
• Developing an online community for an arts organization. Show less

• I co-founded Walk & Squawk Performance Project and served as its Co-Artistic/ Producing director overseeing programming, board development, marketing and financial management. I managed cross-sector partnerships and.
• Renovating a vacant, 20,000 square foot building in a Detroit Enterprise Zone into a multi-disciplinary arts venue, with theater, gallery, bar, studio and office space.
• Producing, directing, and presenting dozens of multi-disciplinary theater, music, visual arts and and community events.
• Co-creating and directing The Walking Project a 4–year arts and civic dialogue project that explored desire lines, or paths, made by people who walk across fields in South Africa and across vacant lots in Detroit – and.
• Co-creating and directing an award-winning exchange project with 10 South African artists that reached 8000 people in Southeast Michigan, including 4000 young people, through workshops, performances and community.

Master Of Fine Arts, Playwriting

Bachelor Of General Studies

Interactive Telecommunications (Mps Program)