ERIKA KAHILL

Erika Kahill has been a litigator in Alaska for thirteen years. She is currently a trial attorney at the Alaska Public Defender Agency in Anchorage, with expertise in child welfare, parent defense. Prior to this work, Erika spent six years as a criminal defense attorney. She has represented Alaskans throughout the state, including in remote rural communities, and has always had a passion for both travel and public interest work. Erika hails from Maine, where she attended Bowdoin College and the University of Maine School of Law. During undergraduate, she spent a semester in Paris and studied at the Sorbonne. Between college and law school, she spent two years in the Peace Corps in Burkina Faso, West Africa, where she taught English as a foreign language to middle schoolers in a small village. Erika still loves to travel, but nowadays does so mostly by exploring this amazing state with her husband, Jim Adams, two children, and dog.