Erin Millar is the CEO and Co-founder of Indiegraf, where she works to grow community media businesses across Canada and the U.S.

Erin is a journalist and entrepreneur who founded The Discourse, where she led an award-winning journalism team and developed a successful business model for in-depth local news.

She regularly contributes as an industry organizer and advocate on government policy and is chair of the Canadian Journalism Collective, a non-profit organization created to distribute a $100-million annual fund from Google to support sustainability and innovation in the Canadian news ecosystem.

Erin’s work responds to the massive transition in local news ownership underway. She works with startups seizing this generational opportunity to transform local news to be more equitable and responsive to community information needs.