About Erin

Erin Holt is a veteran communications and media professional in Nashville. Her nearly two-decade long career has spanned television news reporting in Nebraska and Music City, government and public affairs, ad agency PR, and education. She has envisioned and managed national PR campaigns, written speeches for former Governor Bill Haslam and ECD Commissioners Bill Hagerty and Randy Boyd, spear-headed local advocacy campaigns, managed video productions, produced dozens of successful events, written impactful annual reports, and many things in between. If there’s creativity involved, Erin wants a front seat. 

Most recently, Erin served as the Communications Director at KIPP Nashville Public Schools, where she helped shape, define, and execute a vision for integrated marketing and communications. During her seven years at KIPP Nashville, Erin’s strategic leadership helped KIPP more than double its size – growing from 4 schools to 10 schools – by harnessing storytelling through parent and student voices. Her expertise has been recognized nationally by the Charter School Growth Fund and the KIPP Foundation.

Erin loves to write and tell stories and connect with people. She’s never met a stranger. You’ll always find her with a notebook and pen, because everyone’s got a story to tell, and you can never be too prepared. 

Erin attended Vanderbilt University where she majored in Communications and minored in English. In her spare time, Erin plays violin with the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra, cheers on the Vanderbilt Commodores, and spends time with her family, including her husband Ryan and two sons, Walker and Henry. Erin is a dual Swiss-American citizen, having been born in Zürich, and speaks fluent German.

Ask her about that time she reported on missing goats in Nebraska, or the time she performed a violin concerto with an orchestra.