Erika Kreger

Director of Development

ISB

Erika Kreger joined the Institute for Systems Biology as Director of Development in January 2023. Previously, she was on the Seattle Children’s Hospital Foundation major gifts team (2015-2022), and with the University of Michigan as a regional gift officer, based first in Pasadena, Calif., and then Seattle (2012-2015). Prior to that, she was the University of Washington’s Southern California Regional Officer (2010-2012), Director for Advancement in the UW Graduate School (2006-2010), and Director of Development in the Graduate Division at UC Berkeley (2004-2006).

Before making the career change into fundraising, Erika held a tenure-track faculty position in the English Department at San Jose State University (2001-2004), and taught high school and coached track at Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma, Wash. (1992-94). She earned her PhD at UC Davis (2000), and holds an MA from the Claremont Graduate School (1992) and a BA from Smith College (1991).