she/her
Erica Smith
M.Ed.
About Erica Smith
Erica Smith is an award-winning sexuality educator and consultant with over 20 years of experience. She has provided comprehensive sex education and advocacy to young women and LGBTQ+ youth in Philadelphia’s juvenile justice system worked in abortion care and supported HIV+ and transgender adolescents and their families. In 2019, she developed the Purity Culture Dropout™️ Program to help people learn all of the sex education that they missed growing up in purity culture- sex ed that is accurate, queer-inclusive, trauma-informed, compassionate, and comprehensive.
Media Features:
- Parents Magazine
- Men's Health
- Self Magazine
- Ask Men
- Vice
- The Huffington Post
- Bustle
- Refinery 29
- Shape Magazine
- MTV
- MEL Magazine
- Healthline
Education
- B.A. Penn State University; Women’s Studies
- M.Ed. Widener University's Center; Human Sexuality Studies
Professional Affiliations
- Erica Smith Education and Consulting LLC
- The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia