Erin Potts

As a social entrepreneur and cultural strategist, Erin Potts has been on a two-decades-long mission is to help artists create change, guide organizations & movements towards financial sustainability, and bring together teams to achieve the impossible.

In the 1990s, Erin co-founded the Milarepa Fund and the massive Tibetan Freedom Concerts with the Beastie Boys. Since then, she has established and led several other nonprofits, including Revolutions Per Minute—a nonprofit agency that supports over 1,300 musicians and comedians making change and has become a model for artist engagement and cultural strategy.

Over her twenty year career of working with artists and nonprofits, Erin has raised $20 million for important causes, including earned income strategies that have resulted in over $12 million in revenue. Her work has been featured in Billboard and The New York Times, and she has been nominated for several prestigious awards, including the Rebook Human Rights Award and the Charles Bronfman Prize.