Erika is a 2012 graduate from Georgia Tech's Biomedical Engineering and won 2nd place in the 2013 Georgia Tech InVenture Prize with her invention, AnemoCheck, a color-based disposable screening tool for anemia. Erika is the CEO and co-founder of Sanguina, a company that spun out of Georgia Tech and Emory University in 2014. Sanguina is focused on development and launch of home-use wellness tools. Since then, Sanguina has raised over $1.5M in non-dilutive grant funding for continued development and commercialization of several technologies. In 2017, the company received FDA clearance on AnemoCheck for clinical use, and the company is currently pursuing over-the-counter clearance. Erika holds one method patent for her AnemoCheck technology, and has several others pending. Erika also functions as the Director of Operations for the newly NIH-funded Atlanta Center for Microsystems-Engineered Point-of-Care Technologies.