Erica Newland is Counsel and Head of the Innovation Hub at Protect Democracy. She also oversees Protect Democracy’s civil service portfolio, protecting and defending the federal civil service and the critical programs and services it provides. Before joining Protect Democracy, Erica served as an Attorney Adviser at the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice (DoJ). Before that, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Democracy & Technology. During law school, Erica worked for the National Security Division at DoJ and the Senate Judiciary Committee. Erica received her J.D. from Yale Law School.