Erica Fox ’06
Company / School: Google
Position / Degree: Manager, Government Affairs & Public Policy
Overview
Manager, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Google
Washington, DC
- BA, Drama, Political Science, Vassar College
- MPP, Georgetown University
Erica Fox (she/her) serves as Manager of Government Affairs and Public Policy for Google, advising product leadership on global competition issues in support of the Google Play business. Erica has worked at the intersection of technology, public policy and politics for the past 15 years. Prior to Google, Erica served as lead for U.S. Public Policy at Cloudflare, helping the company navigate their IPO in Washington and advising company leadership on content moderation, intermediary liability, trade, and privacy issues. Erica previously served as Manager of Government Affairs at Apple, where she helped grow the public policy function in D.C., leading campaigns on encryption, privacy, safety and competition. Erica previously served on the board of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, and is currently an Executive Fellow at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Vassar, and a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University.
Advice to Students:
Don’t get bogged-down believing there is only one path for you once you have committed to anything, be it a major, a first job, or a city. My career trajectory has rarely made sense in the moment, and it’s only in hindsight that we learn how to tell a coherent story. The best decision I ever made was leaving my first job out of college to take a job on President Obama’s first campaign. It taught me skills and resilience, but it also taught me that my strengths and interests were very different from what I thought they were at Vassar. Be open to change. And always try to get a feel for the people you will be working with. I have had jobs where I loved the mission, but the coworkers were so difficult, it was not a positive experience. But when you find people you connect with, mentors, or mentees, ask them for their networks. And keep chasing new, good people to learn from.
