Introducing Erika Carney Haub!

The Santiago Partnership is ecstatic to introduce you to Erika Carney Haub, our newly hired Director of Development, as she is the first U.S. based employee of the Partnership. We feel extremely blessed and lucky to have Erika join our team as we see how she has been so gifted to serve this role. We want to tell you a little bit about her.

Erika was born and raised in Shoreline, Washington. She left Seattle when she was seventeen to attend North Park University in Chicago, Illinois where she majored in English Literature and Spanish. She was heavily involved in service to the community surrounding the campus and upon graduating from North Park in 1995, Erika was hired by the University to form a full-scale youth outreach program, After Hours. She was recognized for her work with After Hours by President Bill Clinton when she was awarded the President’s Service Award in 1996, an award given to twenty individuals or organizations as the highest honor given by the President for volunteer service. She also received the “Tomorrow's Leaders Today” award from Chicago Public Allies when future First Lady Michele Obama was the director.

Erika returned to the West Coast in 1998 and served as a lay pastor at churches in Spokane, WA and Portland, OR where she met her husband, Douglas. They were married in 2002 and moved to South Central, Los Angeles to attend Fuller Seminary and help plant Church of the Redeemer, a new Covenant Church in L.A. In addition to preaching and leading in the church, Erika served as the director of Adventures Ahead, an after-school literacy program for elementary students. After the birth of their second child, Erika began part-time work in Development for two different local non-profits: a spanish-language seminary, C.H.E.T., and Servant Partners, a global missions organizations serving slums in communities worldwide. Erika earned her Masters in Divinity from Fuller Seminary in 2005 and is Ordained to Word and Sacrament in the Evangelical Covenant Church.

In December of 2008, Erika and Doug moved their family to Erika’s hometown of Shoreline, Washington where they served as Pastors at Shoreline Covenant Church. After completing their service at Shoreline Covenant, Erika accepted an Interim Pastor position at Newport Covenant Church in Bellevue, WA where she served until 2021.

In addition to being married to Doug, they have four beautiful children. Erika enjoys writing, preaching and speaking, serving her community, and spending time with her family. She feels deeply grateful to have the opportunity to serve the people who are The Santiago Partnership and their family of supporters worldwide.