Erin Shea
I-Corps Program Manager, Launch Blue
Erin Shea is the I-Corp Program Manager with Launch Blue for the Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) at the University of Kentucky (UK), where she is responsible for managing recruitment, program facilitation and participant support.
Before coming to UK, Erin was a marketing and communications director at an equine nonprofit and a journalist covering the sport of horse racing. In addition to her equine journalism work, she has also covered luxury business, fashion, travel, music, and dog sports for various local, national, and international media outlets. She holds a Bachelor of Science in agricultural communications from the University of Kentucky and a Master of Science in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.