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'''Ericka Hart''' is an activist and sexuality educator. They received a Master's Degree in Education in Sexuality from Widener University.<ref name="Fluker">{{Cite web |title=How This Sex Educator And Breast Cancer-Warrior Practices Activism And Self-Care |last=Fluker |first=Dominique |work=Forbes |date=June 11, 2018 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |url= https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominiquefluker/2018/06/11/erickahart/#5e85d1a0502b}}</ref>

She was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer in 2014 and underwent a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction. Since then, they have gone topless during many public appearances in order to raise breast cancer awareness, especially for [[LGBTQ]]+ people and people of color.<ref name="Valenti">{{Cite web |title=This Breast Cancer Survivor's Runway Walk Was a Fashion Week Game Changer |last=Valenti |first=Lauren |work=Vogue |date=12 February 2018 |access-date=6 October 2020 |url= https://www.vogue.com/article/chromat-fall-2018-ericka-heart-breast-cancer-survivor-model-interview}}</ref><ref name="Vasquez">{{Cite web |title=Four radical sex educators you should know |author=Vasquez, Tina |work=Daily Kos |date=August 18, 2020 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |url= https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/18/1970304/-Four-radical-sex-educators-you-should-know}}</ref><ref name="Sonoma" />

From 2017 to 2020, Hart was an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University School of Social Work, where she taught classes on Human Sexuality and Gender. After complaining in the Spring 2020 semester to university deans about a student who was "making rape jokes in class as well as being transphobic and generally anti-black in my direction", Hart was cut from the faculty, with the official reasoning being "budget cuts".<ref name="Asare">{{Cite web |title=Academia Is Not Doing Enough To Support Black Professors: A Black Queer Non-Binary Femme's Story Of Being Pushed Out Of The Ivory Tower |last=Asare |first=Janice Gassam |work=Forbes |date=February 25, 2021 |access-date=March 9, 2021 |url= https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2021/02/25/academia-is-not-doing-enough-to-support-black-professors-a-black-queer-non-binary-femmes-story-of-being-pushed-out-of-the-ivory-tower/?sh=6e7c82522683}}</ref> The university replaced Hart with a "newly hired white [[cisgender]] professor" while still using Hart's syllabus.<ref name="ihar_Colu">{{Cite web |title=Columbia's School of Social Work is Racist to Black Students and Faculty (Spoiler) |last=Hart |first=Ericka |work=Medium |date=February 17, 2021 |access-date=March 9, 2021 |url= https://ihartericka.medium.com/columbias-school-of-social-work-is-racist-to-black-students-and-faculty-spoiler-2602c707276c}}</ref>

They are also the host of a podcast titled "Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast".<ref name="surv_Meet">{{Cite web |title=Meet The Most Badass Breast Cancer Survivor, Ericka Hart — Naked, Loud, And Totally Proud Of Her Post-Surgery Body |author= |work=SurvivorNet |date=October 11, 2019 |access-date=March 9, 2021 |url= https://www.survivornet.com/articles/meet-the-most-badass-breast-cancer-survivor-ericka-hart-naked-loud-and-totally-proud-of-her-post-surgery-body/}}</ref>

Ericka lives in New York, USA with her partner Ebony.<ref name="Cooper">{{Cite web |title=Breast Cancer Survivor, Activist, & Sexuality Educator Ericka Hart’s Brooklyn Home Is a Celebration of Blackness |last=Cooper |first=Chinasa |work=Apartment Therapy |date=October 22, 2019 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |url= https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ericka-hart-brooklyn-apartment-house-tour-36659660}}</ref>