Erica Simon - Vice President, Multimedia

Erica Simon is the VP of Multimedia for HABJ and the Weekend Morning Anchor at KTRK ABC13. As a native Texan, she couldn't be happier to call H-Town home. She comes from a station in Jacksonville, Florida where she received two Emmy nominations -- one for team coverage spot news and one for team coverage during Hurricane Matthew. While there, she also anchored the station's Weekend Morning newscast and helped bring it to a #1 ranking.

After Duncanville High School (in the Dallas area,) she went off to the Midwest and graduated with a major in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in Sociology from the University of Missouri. From there, she anchored and reported for KOMU-TV, then spent two years at KTAL in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Some of Simon's most memorable interviews include NFL wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald and Civil Rights icon Andrew Young.

One of her biggest passions outside of work is service. Simon has mentored teen girls for years and gone on three international mission trips. In Costa Rica, she helped feed an entire village and take care of the Sunday School kids at their sister congregation. In the Dominican Republic, her team threw a Christmas party at a special-needs orphanage, washed children's hair in a Haitian village and visited widows.

In addition to the National Association of Black Journalists, Simon is part of the Missouri Alumni Association. She loves sports, traveling and hanging with her husband and Sampson, their Dalmatian. They also just entered a new chapter with the birth of their first child.