Erin Haar is a marketing professional and multimedia storyteller from Southern California. Her interest in storytelling began with photography and over the years has evolved to include video editing, graphic design, oral history interviews, and more. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in American Studies and Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in December of 2020, and began her current role at the Cathedral Choral Society (CCS) in Washington, DC shortly after in July of 2021. She serves as CCS’ Creative Media & Marketing Manager, and her most recent storytelling project in this role was “The Capital’s First Chorus: Oral Histories from Members of the Cathedral Choral Society.” On behalf of CCS, she applied for and was accepted into the DC Oral History Collaborative, receiving $13,000 in grants to record and film oral history interviews with current and former singers, board members, and donors. These interviews preserved stories that had not yet been written down or recorded, included vital pieces of CCS’ 80+ history as Washington National Cathedral’s symphonic chorus-in-residence. She looks forward to continuing these oral history interviews at CCS and becoming more involved in the oral history community as a board member for OHMAR.
