Erica Pearson

Erica is a reporter at the New York Daily News, where she covers immigration issues. Locally, she works to show how immigration policy affects New Yorkers – but her stories have also included reporting from Haiti in the 2010 earthquake’s aftermath and covering the Ecuadoran funeral for a Brooklyn hate-crime victim. A Wisconsin native, she is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining the News, she worked as an editor and reporter at amNewYork and the public policy website GothamGazette.com.