Erica Dumas is a Los Angeles-based strategic communications executive with 12 years of experience guiding elected officials, government agencies, advocacy organizations, and public institutions through some of the most complex, high-stakes, and publicly scrutinized communications environments in the country. She is a trusted advisor to mayors, members of Congress, and institutional leaders whose work lives in the public eye — and she brings the kind of calm, strategic clarity that only comes from having done this work for real, under real pressure, at real scale.
Most recently, Erica led media strategy for Robinson Helicopter's $10 billion U.S. Army contract, translating a complex, highly regulated announcement into coverage that landed with national business and trade press.
Before that, Erica served as lead publicist for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, managing storytelling and press strategy for Caribbean and African national teams and their players. Her work focused on placing human-centered narratives that went beyond match results to tell the fuller story of who these athletes are, where they come from, and what they carry with them onto the pitch. The coverage she secured spanned national and international sports, culture, and community press — and gave a global stage to communities and countries that rarely see themselves centered in major sports media.
Earlier, Erica served as Los Angeles-based communications lead for a Congresswoman's California U.S. Senate campaign. She managed national press strategy, multicultural and community media outreach across Black, Brown, and Asian press, celebrity engagement, and high-profile event production. She arranged a fundraiser with a former NBA player, managed all public relations for the Congresswoman's Netflix movie premiere, and led the national press program that included a major profile with a New York Times opinion columnist, a feature in Essence magazine, and a series of legacy placements documenting one of the most historic congressional careers in California history. During the final months of the Congresswoman's tenure in the U.S. Congress, Erica also managed communications in the congressional office, working to secure retrospective and legacy coverage that honored her 25-year record of advocacy and service.
Earlier in her career, Erica served as Senior Spokesperson for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the bi-state government agency responsible for the region's international airports, bridges, tunnels, the PATH train system, bus terminals, and the 16-acre World Trade Center redevelopment. It was one of the most demanding communications roles in American government: managing press operations across every line of business, serving as the public face of a multi-billion dollar institution, and being on call for whatever came next.
What came next, in 2014, was Ebola. Erica served as the lead spokesperson for the Port Authority's response to the outbreak across seven international airports — managing national media under extraordinary pressure, coordinating with federal health and safety authorities, and keeping the public informed with accurate, calm, and consistent messaging at a moment when panic was the alternative. She also led the internal communications program for 9/11 victims, survivors, and Port Authority employees, a responsibility she describes as one of the most humbling and important of her career.
In 2016, Erica led the PR launch for Mort Zuckerman's $100 million U.S.-Israel STEM Leadership Program, introducing a major philanthropic initiative to national audiences.
Across all of it, Erica has generated over 2 billion media impressions, secured more than a dozen national magazine covers, and built lasting relationships with international, national, and local journalists, editors, and producers. Her work has been in Vogue, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Essence, the New York Daily News, The Hollywood Reporter, The New Yorker, Variety, The Wall Street Journal, and dozens of other national and community publications.
