Erika Mariko Olsen

She grew up taking voice lessons with the late Sue Okabe and Lisa Joe and majored in Vocal Performance at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music. Since college she has sung with the Grateful Crane Ensemble, Los Akatombros, and performed at various events such as the Emperor of Japan’s birthday celebration and JACN at Dodgers Stadium.

Always a lover of games, she decided not to pursue music full-time after all to instead join the video game industry as a producer. She worked at Riot Games, makers of League of Legends, for the last 4 years. Though her core job was team leadership and product development on the merchandise team, she would also lend her voice to the audio team to help with the creation of new music.

Last July, she left Riot Games and moved to the Bay Area where she now works at Google on Project Stream. She’s very excited about the future of technology and secretly hopes the next Miss Pasadena JCI is a tech and gaming nerd too!