Ericka (Andersen) Sylvester, BAJ’04, published her first book, "Leaving Cloud 9: The True Story of a Life Resurrected from the Ashes of Poverty," "Trauma and Mental Illness," with HarperCollins Publishers. Sylvester is a digital marketing director for the Independent Women’s Forum, a politically conservative nonprofit organization focused on gender-specific economic policy issues. (July 2018)