FWIT San Antonio May Meeting

We hope to see you and your guests! Great speaker, awards, recognition, and drawings! This is our last meeting for program year 2024-2025.

About our speaker:

Erika Prosper Nirenberg. First Lady of San Antonio and H-E-B, Senior Director of Customer Insights

Erika joined H-E-B in 2008, and in her role, leads a team charged with helping guide the development of H-E-B's strategic vision and operational efforts by providing customer insights to change the business, gain share growth and establish a definitive preference for the company.

Much of Erika's passion revolves around efforts to help improve quality of life among underserved populations. Outside of work, she co-founded and was the 2016 Chair of the Latina Leadership Institute and has led the creation of multiple education, youth entrepreneurship programming, and women’s economic development white papers with Rai$ing Texas, the SABER Institute and VentureLab. In 2019, Erika was named the San Antonio Business Journal’s Woman of the Year and a Governor’s Yellow Rose of Texas honoree. Since 2022, she has been a yearly regional Panelist for the prestigious White House Fellows Program and participated in the Department of Defense’s JCOC Class 93. Erika became a Dame De Escoffier in 2023, the same year she received the Ohtli Award from the Mexican government, the highest honor given to a non-citizen for impact in promoting Mexican culture. Within H-E-B, she has also received Executive Corporate Leadership awards in Community Service and Diversity & Inclusion in 2015, 2016, and 2019.

Erika grew up as a migrant farmworker in the Rio Grande Valley, earned a master’s in communication from the UPENN Annenberg School, and two bachelors from UT Austin. In 2020, she earned an Executive degree in Behavioral Economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Having been the 2018 Chairwoman of the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Erika has served on several community boards and is currently active on the boards of the Girls Scouts of Southwest Texas, and Methodist Healthcare Ministries. Additionally, she volunteers on several advisory boards aimed at empowering Hispanic women, non-profits, and voting.