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Erin Bodine

"The universe is made of stories not of atoms." - Muriel Rukeyser Erin

Background

Erin joined DCI in 2006 after graduating from the University of Colorado with a master’s degree in print journalism. Her experience writing for several Colorado newspapers, including the Denver Business Journal, allows her to quickly spot local stories with national appeal.

Erin’s Passion for Places

With a world atlas as her coffee table book, Erin is a researcher at heart who loves to constantly learn about new geographies. She firmly believes that every place has something unique to offer, whether it’s local cuisine “to die for” or unforgettable business stories and storytellers. Her travels abroad to countries, such as Ireland, New Zealand and England, have only confirmed this philosophy, while the wonders in her own backyard never cease to amaze her.

Notable Results

  • On behalf of the Wyoming Business Council’s talent attraction efforts, Erin arranged a segment on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” on the retraining of laid-off auto industry workers for the oil and gas industry. Erin subsequently placed variations of this story in The New York Times, USA Today, FOX News and The Detroit Free Press, generating more than $500,000 in advertising equivalency to help Wyoming attract a talented workforce.
  • To help the city of Carrollton, Texas, attract world-class developers and new residents to new light rail stops along a Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) line, Erin helped develop an extensive Marketing Blueprint with creative ways to reach the city’s target audience, resulting in DCI placing stories about Carrollton in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and NBC Nightly News within months of starting a marketing program for the city.
  • For the premier of the province of Saskatchewan, Erin coordinated a successful media tour in Washington, D.C., and New York City, resulting in appearances on FOX Business News and Bloomberg Television, ringing the opening bell at the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), a feature profile in Fortune, and interviews with TIME and The New York Times.
  • To promote Denver’s successful $1.67 billion Transportation Expansion Project and the redevelopment of the city’s former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Erin placed three separate articles in the real estate section of The Wall Street Journal.

Up Close

Although this North Dakota girl grew up sailing on Lake Sakakawea (yes, there is a huge lake in North Dakota), like Loretta Lynn, she is truly a “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” Erin’s dad was an underground coal miner in West Virginia before moving to the prairie with Erin’s mother, who hails from Virginia. As a result, Erin knows just about every ode to these two mountain states (think John Denver’s “Country Roads”).

Where You’ll Find Erin on a Sunny Day

When not traveling to New York City to see her wonderful colleagues, Erin can be found working and relaxing at home in the mountains of Evergreen, Colorado, just outside of Denver, with her husband, Fran. There, they tease each other endlessly, hike, ski, hot-tub and generally enjoy their first home.

Places that Erin has Called Home

Hazen, North Dakota
Northfield, Minnesota
Chicago, Illinois
Boulder, Colorado
Evergreen, Colorado

Surprising Facts about Erin

Erin + Basketball = Missing Vital Organs
If you get really upset with Erin, please don’t try any kidney punches – she’s only got one left thanks to a near-fatal basketball accident in high school. Basketball was not a kind sport to this feisty player, who, throughout her high school career, sprained both ankles, chipped her two front teeth almost completely off, and tore her anterior cruciate ligament.

Erin + 300 Hurdles = State Championship
Erin often views obstacles in her clients’ paths to success as hurdles to quickly overcome – and rightfully so. After dropping basketball and putting all her athletic energy into running, she won the 300 meter hurdles at the North Dakota state competition her senior year.

Erin Go Bragh
After getting her first “real job” in Chicago, Erin invited her family on a weeklong trip to Ireland. Starting in Dublin, Erin, her mom, dad and sister rented a car and crisscrossed the small country, jumping over castle walls, dancing the jig while listening to traditional Gaelic music, drinking Guinness at small pubs along the way, and reveling in the wonderful storytelling ability of the locals.