Erin is passionate about supporting movement organizations to effectively tell their stories. She loves supporting organizations to sharpen their communications strategy as well as building the teams, knowledge and systems necessary to create the most effective communications. She does that through supporting recruiting, training and coaching, as well as facilitation.
Erin has over 20 years of experience as a communications practitioner and over seven as a senior leader in nonprofits and foundations. She has experience working with unions, universities, nonprofits, and foundations and on issues as wide ranging as workers’ rights, reproductive justice, gender justice, housing, disability justice, and racial justice. She’s worked internationally and across multiple languages. Her recent clients as a consultant include Morehouse College’s International Comparative Labor Studies program and CUNY’s Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice Fellowship program.
Her most recent organizational post was as Director of Communications for Foundation for a Just Society. Before FJS, Erin was the communications director at Forward Together, a national reproductive justice organization for five years where she oversaw all aspects of the organization’s communications and developed strategies to spread Forward Together’s message of empowering families with the rights, recognition, and resources they need to thrive.
Prior to her work in the gender and reproductive justice movements, Erin came from the labor movement where she worked as a communicator for 1199SEIU and the Committee of Interns and Residents. As a seasoned communications strategist, she has led communications campaigns to win paid sick days and living wage legislation, secure affordable housing, keep hospitals open, secure strong union contracts, and provide medical relief in Haiti. Erin has previous experience as an organizer working to build union and community coalitions in the Bronx and Newark, organizing tenants at the University of California-San Diego, and as an educator fighting for access to higher education and the retention of underrepresented students.
When not nerding out on the latest trends in communications strategy, you can find her in her garden, on the dance floor, or roaming the streets of New York with her camera.