Erica Yayra Nego (born c. 1984 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American-Ghanaian businesswoman, model and beauty pageant titleholder.

[citation needed] She is of Ghanaian,[9] German and Persian ancestry.

[1] She also competed at Miss Universe 2011 in São Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011.

[11] The play School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh was inspired by the 2011 Miss Universe Ghana competition in which Nego participated,[12][13] and the controversy around colorism that this contest sparked.

[14] This biography article about a United States contestant in a beauty pageant is a stub.