Bianca Erickson

Bianca Erickson is the former the Executive Director of the Women of Tomorrow Mentor & Scholarship Program, a non-profit organization founded in 1997 by Jennifer Valoppi, Television Journalist and Author, and Don Browne, Telemundo Network President, as a way to help at-risk young women live up to their full potential. The organization mentors 2,000 at-risk young women in 99 public high schools across South Florida with a network of 250 highly accomplished professional women and has awarded close to $2 Million dollars in scholarships to its graduates. During her tenure as Executive Director, Women of Tomorrow doubled the number of schools and young women it served, increased revenues five-fold, established a scholarship endowment and laid the groundwork for national expansion planning.

Bianca recently attended the Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management course and has received recognitions for her work with Women of Tomorrow from the Legal Aid Society of Broward County and The Miami Dade County Office of the Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.  She has also co-authored several papers that have been published in academic journals.  Bianca holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology & Spanish from Mount Holyoke College and Master of Science in Epidemiology from the University of Massachusetts.

RECOGNITION AND AWARDS

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  Certificate of Appreciation presented by the Miami-Dade County Office of the Mayor and Board of County Commissioners presented to Bianca Erickson, Director Women of Tomorrow Mentor & Scholarship Program, May 19, 2005.

  
  


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  Legal Aid Society of Broward County’s 2005 Outstanding Community Organization Award to Women of Tomorrow Mentor & Scholarship Program, Bianca Erickson, Director, and Program Founders Jennifer Valoppi and Don Browne, May 13, 2005.

  
  


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  Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, Inducted 2000

  
  


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  Teaching & Learning in a Diverse Classroom Fellow, 1999-2000

  
  


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  Vice President, Graduate Student Government Association, 1999-2000

  
  


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  Outstanding Employee Award, The Children’s Study Home, 1998

  
  


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  National Psi Chi Honor Society Member, Inducted 1995

  
  


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  Youth for Understanding International Exchange, Toyota Motor Corporate Scholarship Recipient, Summer 1990
  

  
  

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

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  Dembe AE, Erickson JB, Delbos RG, Banks SM Dembe. Nonstandard Shift Work and the Risk of Job-Related Injuries. Scand J Work, Environ Health 2006 Mar: 32(3): 232-240.

  
  


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  Dembe AE, Erickson JB, Delbos RG, Banks SM. The impact of overtime and long work hours on occupational injuries and illnesses: new evidence from the United States. Occup Environ Med 2005 Aug; 62: 588-597.

  
  


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  Dembe AE, Erickson JB, Delbos R. Predictors of work-related injuries and illnesses: national survey findings. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2004 Aug;1(8):542-50.

  
  


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  Dembe AE, Erickson JB. Relationships between stressful work schedules and occupational injuries: New findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Presentation at the 130th Annual Meeting of APHA, November 11, 2002.

  
  


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  Dembe AE, Savageau JA, Erickson JB, Banks S. Social Inequalities in Occupational Health Care. Poster presentation at the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy Annual Research Meeting, June 23, 2002.

  
  


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  Chasan-Taber L, Erickson JB, McBride JW, Nasca P, Chasan-Taber S, Freedson P. Validity and reproducibility of a physical activity questionnaire in women. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2002 Jun;34(6):987-92.

  
  


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  Schmidt M, Erickson JB, Freedson PS, Markenson G, Chasan-Taber L. Physical activity patterns during pregnancy in a low income racially diverse population. Am J Epidemiol 2002;155:S103.

  
  


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  Chasan-Taber L, Erickson JB, McBride JW, Nasca P, Chasan-Taber S, Freedson P. Reproducibility of a self-administered lifetime physical activity questionnaire among female college alumnae. Am J Epidemiol 2002; 155: 282-291.

  
  


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  Erickson JB, Chasan-Taber L, Chasan-Taber S, Freedson P. Reproducibility of a self-administered lifetime physical activity questionnaire among female college alumnae. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, June 2000.