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Erica Hodgin is the Director of Civic Education at Facing History & Ourselves, an educational non-profit that uses lessons of the past to help create a better future. At Facing History, Erica is leading a multi-year civics initiative working with staff, schools, and teachers across the country to prepare students to participate as informed, ethical, and empowered civic actors in our democracy. Previously, Erica was the Co-Director of the Civic Engagement Research Group (CERG) at the University of California, Riverside where she partnered with educational leaders and key stakeholders on state, district, and school-wide reform efforts to promote high quality and equitable civic learning. Erica has co-created civic learning resource collections such as Educating 4 Democracy, a website with teacher resources and videos, as well as the Digital Civics Toolkit for educators. Erica’s research focuses on the distribution, quality, and influence of youth civic learning and digital civic learning opportunities. She has authored articles in Social Education, Theory and Research in Social Education, Democracy & Education, Journal of Children and Media, and American Journal of Education as well as numerous book chapters. Erica also taught English Language Arts and History-Social Science courses and served as an instructional coach at the middle school and high school level.

 

erica_hodgin@facinghistory.org