Ericka Hobbs-Session is NCLR’s Vice President of Finance and Administration and leads the organization’s financial strategy and operations in service of advancing justice and equity for LGBTQ+ communities. She partners across the organization and with external collaborators to strengthen NCLR’s financial position, operational capacity, and long-term sustainability. She approaches financial leadership as a catalyst for equity aligning strategy, structure, and stewardship to expand access and opportunity while upholding the highest standards of accountability and responsible management of philanthropic and public resources.

Ericka brings more than 17 years of nonprofit financial leadership experience, with deep expertise in strategic planning, financial management, risk oversight, and operational development in complex, mission-driven environments. She leads through complexity with clarity and discipline, builds high-trust partnerships, and translates financial strategy into decisive action that strengthens performance and accelerates impact. She ensures that resources drive measurable outcomes and long-term sustainability. Her leadership integrates technical rigor with a trauma-informed approach, recognizing that systems, decisions, and policies directly shape culture, people, and community outcomes.

Prior to joining NCLR, Ericka held senior financial leadership roles across several nonprofit organizations focused on health, housing, economic mobility, education, and community-based services. She led organizations through periods of transformation and stabilization, rebuilding reserves, strengthening internal controls, modernizing systems, and positioning nonprofit organizations for sustained growth and resilience.

Ericka is driven by an unwavering commitment to stand alongside the LGBTQ+ community in its ongoing pursuit of justice, safety, and full equality. She operates on the front line of that work building the financial strength and operational backbone that enables advocates, attorneys, and community leaders to advance bold, systemic change.

She brings both professional rigor and personal conviction to her work and is committed to building institutions that make equity not just aspirational, but achievable. Outside of her role, Ericka is grounded in a deep personal commitment to service and the belief that strong communities are built through collective action and shared accountability.