Born in Seattle, Washington, Erna attended Scripps College in Claremont, California, and has been working with InterVarsity for about 15 years. Since 2000 she has been working specifically with Black Campus Ministries helping start ministries to Black college students in LA. She became the Assistant Director of the Los Angeles Urban Project in 2012. Erna loves preaching, leadership development, and training staff. She led worship at Urbana15, and has been training worship leaders for the past decade and a half, particularly with an eye to multi-ethnic worship. Erna is currently serving on staff in Oregon and is also pursuing a Master’s in Intercultural Studies at North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies. She and her husband Cameron have been married for 8 years. Want to know more about Erna? She blogs her thoughts at feistythoughts.com and shares her music at www.erna.me.