Erica Prosper Nirenberg is the former first lady of San Antonio. She co-founded and was the 2016 chair of the Latina Leadership Institute and has led the creation of multiple education programming, youth entrepreneurship programming and women’s economic development white papers with Rai$ing Texas, the SABER Institute and VentureLab.

 

In 2019, she was named the San Antonio Business Journal’s Woman of the Year and a Governor’s Yellow Rose of Texas honoree. Since 2022, she has been a yearly regional panelist for the prestigious White House Fellows Program. 

 

Prosper Nirenberg became a Dame De Escoffier in 2023, the same year she received the Ohtli Award from the Mexican government, the highest honor given to a non-citizen for impact in promoting Mexican culture. The 2018 chair of the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce serves or volunteers on several community and advisory boards aimed at empowering Hispanic women, nonprofits and voting.