Erica Cherry is a senior officer, tax compliance and investment accounting for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. In this role, she supports foundation efforts to promote thriving children, working families and equitable communities. Cherry leads the tax compliance and core financial investment accounting functions for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Trust. Her primary responsibilities include oversight of tax planning and reporting and management of investment accounting activities and financial systems to track and report investments activity; she also oversees the foundation's global payroll operations functions. In her role, she serves as an important link between the Financial Services, Investments and Talent and Human Resources teams. Cherry joined the foundation in 2016 as an investment accounting analyst. Prior to joining the foundation, she spent nearly eight years working in public accounting, primarily serving tax-exempt organizations in both a tax reporting and consulting role where she gained extensive experience with alternative investments and the tax implications thereof. Most recently, she was a tax manager with Crowe LLP's National Tax-Exempt Practice where she was based in South Bend, Indiana; she also previously served as tax senior staff and tax staff at Crowe LLP. Cherry holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in accounting from Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), licensed in Michigan, and has completed the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association Fundamentals of Alternative Investments Certificate Program. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and Michigan Association of CPAs (MICPA) and is also an Affiliate Member of the Foundation Financial Officers Group (FFOG). The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), founded in 1930 as an independent, private foundation by breakfast cereal innovator and entrepreneur Will Keith Kellogg, is among the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States. Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life. The Kellogg Foundation is based in Battle Creek, Michigan, and works throughout the United States and internationally, as well as with sovereign tribes. Special attention is paid to priority places where there are high concentrations of poverty and where children face significant barriers to success. WKKF priority places in the U.S. are in Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico and New Orleans; and internationally, are in Mexico and Haiti. For more information, visit www.wkkf.org [http://www.wkkf.org/]