Founder

Saghar Erica Kasraie is the Executive Director of LIVING WATER Productions. Fluent in both English and Farsi, she is an Iran-born American and Middle East expert, human rights activist, and voice for vulnerable religious minorities, especially women and children. In recent years, Erica has been a business, policy, media, and film consultant and was the Middle East Advisor to a prominent senior member of the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee. She organized and supervised Congressionally-hosted global conferences in Washington for activists to plan the constitutional future of a free, democratic Iran. Before this, Erica developed a decade of expert knowledge of Iranian political, economic, and social conditions. She was Executive Director of the Iranian Freedom Institute and a research assistant at the School of Culture and Security at the Institute of World Politics, educating the public and lawmakers around the world. Erica also served five years as spokesperson of the Confederation of Iranian Students, working in Washington, D.C. and visiting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Iran experts, scholars, and think tank representatives.

Erica and her family fled to Italy shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, then settled in the Washington, D.C. area. She holds a B.S. in Biology from Virginia Commonwealth University and has served as an FBI laboratory scientist. Along with her other civil society work, she worked four years as Outreach Director for the Jude Project, a Reformed mission providing materials to Christian leaders in Iran. Erica has appeared on Fox News, CBN, Newsmax, One America News, Al-Arabiya News, Alhurra TV, and Secure Freedom Radio.