Erika Wallace is a dedicated advising fellow at Matriculate, where support is provided to high-achieving, low-income high school students throughout the college application process. As a member of the Youth Advisory Council at Backrs, Erika collaborates on developing an online platform that connects students with mentors for various forms of development while overseeing the selection process for new council members. Previous experience includes a software engineering internship at Mastercard and a coding fellowship at Less Annoying CRM, focusing on project design and development with several programming languages. Erika is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis, following a distinguished high school career at Douglass High School.