Erin Guinup

Erin Guinup is the founding Executive and Artistic Director of the Tacoma Refugee Choir. With the choir, she has spoken at TEDxSeattle, WE Day, Starbucks, the Global Migrant Festival, and led the choir in performances for over 50,000 people, including national conferences for ACDA, Welcoming America, Race & Pedagogy, and the Governor’s State of the State Address.

Erin has sung around the world in over a dozen languages, including Silkroad Ensemble’s Global Musicians Workshop, her one-woman show about female musical theatre composers, with orchestras including Symphony Tacoma and Ensign Symphony, Israeli-Palestinian choir Common Ground Voices, and as the title character in Mary Poppins. Her students have included leaders at Fortune 500 tech companies, Broadway, opera, and pop performers, and emerging immigrant leaders. She is the composer of choral and solo songs featured on PBS and network television, and the author in three books.

Erin consults for arts organizations and is passionate about creating spaces for belonging, forging unexpected partnerships, evaluating programming, and innovating solutions for a changing world. She has an MBA in Arts Innovation from the Global Leaders Institute and was recently recognized by the American Academy of Teachers of Singing for Inclusion and Inspiration and Chorus America’s Louis Botto Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.