Erica Rocchi Brusselars (she/her) has extensive professional experience as an actuary. She specialized in pensions at the global firm which is now Willis Towers Watson, for 14 years. Prior to that she spent two years as a middle-school math teacher in an under-resourced public school. Erica currently serves as Pittsburgh’s 23rd Ward Chair of the Allegheny County Democratic Committee. More recently she volunteered with the Abolitionist Law Center in the winter & spring of 2021, leading their volunteer remote court watch program in Pittsburgh.

Erica serves on the executive committee of the Pittsburgh Democrats and actively collaborates with Democratic Committee members across the county. In recent years she has volunteered extensively with numerous local Democratic campaigns. She took an active role with the Biden campaign in the 2020 general election and the Georgia Senate Runoffs that same winter, assisting through the anti-racist organization Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ).

Erica earned a bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University (BS in Mathematics with a minor in Gender Studies) and a master’s degree from University of Mississippi (MA in Curriculum & Instruction).

Erica lives in the East Allegheny neighborhood of Pittsburgh's Northside.