Biography

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Erika Concetta Pagano

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, LAWWITHOUTWALLS
LECTURER IN LAW, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Erika studies cross-cultural communication and the impact of creativity and technology in the changing legal landscape.  She is the Associate Director of LawWithoutWalls, an experiential learning exercise in collaborative problem solving and development for lawyers, professionals, and students across the globe. Erika facilitates innovation, teaming, and skill-building workshops and programs at law firms and corporate legal departments across the globe. At Miami Law, Erika teaches Innovation, Technology, and the Law with Michele DeStefano. Erika is also guest faculty at IE University in Madrid, Spain.

She received her B.S.F.S. in Science, Technology, and International Affairs from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and completed coursework at Peking University and East China Normal University. She received her J.D. from the University of Miami, where she was Managing Editor of Miami Law Review, Law School representative to the University Board of Trustees, and a James Weldon Johnson/Robert H. Waters Scholar.

She is a Miami Trustee for the Awesome Foundation, sits on the National Advisory Council for Law School Transparency, is an active member of the Georgetown University Alumni Admissions Program, and serves as Co-Chair of the Georgetown University Class of 2008 Alumni Committee.