Erin Fogarty Owen is an award-winning integrated marketing communications expert with extensive professional experience in higher education, national news, and government.

At the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), Owen envisioned and built a full-service strategic communications unit to consistently tell the powerful story of the university.

At NBC News, Owen worked on Tim Russert’s team at "Meet the Press" covering some of the biggest stories in the early 2000s including the death of John F. Kennedy Jr; the explosion of Space Shuttle Columbia; the 2000 and 2004 presidential conventions and elections; the Bush vs. Gore Supreme Court case; the terrorist attacks of 9/11; the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; and the capture of Saddam Hussein.

At the United States Senate, Owen received her big break by becoming a receptionist for Sen. Bob Kerrey (NE). She went on to serve as assistant communications director and co-led Kerrey's advance team to the 1996 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, IL, when he was chairman of the DSCC. She was creator and executive producer of "Kerrey & Company," the senator's statewide cable show.