Erika Heffernan was born in Maine and currently lives in Key West, FL. She received her BA at University of Central Florida, earned her Post Bac from School of the Museum Fine Arts Boston and her MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work explores the conceptual side of learning and new understandings of perceived norms as someone who identifies with having a disability. Former Chair of the Coalition for (Dis)Ability for ACPA—College Student Educators International she advocates on a national level on how to be inclusive of people that identify as having a disability. An international shown artist as a Special Selection Finalist of the 2012 Videoholica Festival Bulgaria. As a DeCordova Museum Lending Artist her work has been exhibited widely throughout the Boston area in addition to WORK·DETROIT, Booksmart Studios, the University of Virginia, 1st Thursdays Orlando Museum of Art, the University of Central Florida and Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in South Korea.