Erika Bratten is from the “Sweetheart City” of Loveland, CO. She is a 2010 graduate of Western State College of Colorado in Gunnison, CO majoring in Communications with an emphasis in film and minoring in Journalism. During the summer of 2009, Erika worked as a weather intern for KMGH - Denver's Channel 7. She also worked for her college radio station KWSB 91.1 as program director and provided talent as a weekly DJ. She has also provided voice work for local fishing reports for Gunnison Valley’s KVLE 102.3- The Storm. Erika has been studying film work since high school and volunteered as a student coordinator and MC for three years for Loveland’s “Silver Spoon Film Festival”

Erika loves to be outdoors. That includes her all time favorite activity of snowboarding, along with hiking, mountain biking, camping, and getting her jeep all dirty while driving off-road. She loves to travel, her favorite trip was to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, and a sliver of France. For entertainment she enjoys the Denver Broncos and Colorado Avalanche. Erika is from a close, tight nit family and loves every moment she gets with them.