Jerica teaches Ethnic Studies, English, and Senior Seminar courses at CCPA. Before this, she taught for fifteen years in San Francisco and south Los Angeles. While in Los Angeles, she worked with educators and community members to establish the People's Education Movement, an organization working to create sustainable, liberatory spaces inside and beyond the classroom, to promote growth, healing, and transformation. In addition to teaching at CCPA, Jerica teaches working and aspiring teachers at City College of San Francisco in the Teacher Prep Program.