Michigan State Senate District 6

Erika Geiss has served on the Michigan State Legislature’s House Standing Committees of Commerce and Trade, Health Policy, and the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. Before joining the legislature, Geiss was director of education at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University and the curatorial liaison for the core, permanent exhibition, “And Still We Rise: Our Journey through African American History,” at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History. Geiss is also a small business owner and has an extensive publication history as an author and editor of non-fiction books and articles. Geiss earned her bachelor’s degree in developmental psychology from Brandeis University and her master’s degree in art and architectural history from Tufts University.