Erica Thieman

Erica Thieman serves as the Director of Career and Technical Education and the Director of K-12 Curriculum and Instruction at the Illinois State Board of Education since January 2019, where responsibilities include administering and developing grant proposals and leading the development of the 2019 State Perkins Plan. Previous experience includes an Assistant Professor in Agricultural Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Earlier roles featured teaching agriscience and agriculture at Blue Springs School District and Rolla Technical Institute. Erica Thieman holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Agricultural Teacher Education, as well as a B.S. in the same field, all from the University of Missouri-Columbia.