Erika Lautenbach is the Chief Administrative Officer at the Department of Children, Youth and Families. Prior to joining DCYF, she served as Director of Whatcom County Health and Community Services. Erika also previously completing a year-long term as the American Public Health Association/Brookings Institute Congressional Fellow, working for the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. She also worked for the Pacific Northwest Group Manager for Recology, provided organizational and program development support to large non-profits and Public Health-Seattle & King County, and has served as policy and health staff to elected officials at all levels of government.
Erika earned a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and a master’s in public health from the University of Washington. She is pursuing her doctorate in public health leadership at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.