Justin Holden

Justin J. Holden, Founder and Principal Consultant of Holden Curated Content Advising (Holden CCA) specializes in creating strategic, integrated communications and content campaigns tailored to your specific needs. His approach and style is intentional, empathetic, and holistic, providing a deep understanding of nonprofits, the arts, corporate, and government sectors. For more about his experience visit holdencca.com and LinkedIn.

Justin J. Holden is a strategic communications and content creation leader with over two decades of experience in nonprofit management ranging from world renowned arts and culture organizations to public broadcasting.

Recent collaborations with clients in the LGBTQ+, arts, and social impact communities have manifested in meaningful partnerships with NYC Pride, God’s Love We Deliver, The Well (A Mindful Moment), Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, TCC Group, Buhl Regional Health Foundation, Atmashakti Trust, Orlando Family Stage, ArtsNYS, and McCue PR.

A passionate educator, Justin has provided insight as a teaching assistant, an arts administration expert, and guest speaker at Boston University, Baldwin Wallace University, The University of Akron, and Indiana University. In 2026, Justin joined the Adjunct Faculty at George Mason University’s Arts Administration program, teaching Public Relations and Marketing Strategies for the Arts. 

From 2015 to 2023, he led and mentored The Cleveland Orchestra communications team, with a focus on internal corporate and external messaging strategies, reputation management, institutional editorial vision, social and traditional media implementation for international, national, and regional projects. In a senior leadership role as The Cleveland Orchestra’s Vice President of Communications, he was co-leader for the organization’s Communications / Marketing / Audience Engagement / Venues / Events Teams.

Preceding Cleveland, Justin worked in New York City for the leading cultural public relations firm, Polskin Arts & Communications Counselors as a Senior Account Executive. In this role, he developed and implemented strategic communications campaigns with a wide range of prestigious clients in the United States and around the world, including Miami’s New World Symphony, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Armory Show Art Fair, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Olivier Awards, LaPlaca Cohen’s Culture Track, and with JPMorgan Chase Bank (The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize).

Prior to Polskin Arts, Justin worked in the public relations departments of Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic, as well as the commercial marketing division of WGBH Public TV & Radio in Boston.

Justin has immense pride and gratitude for the support of his parents, Mark and Sue Holden, who are the co-founders of a PFLAG chapter (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) in Middletown, Delaware. Holden Curated Content Advising is an LGBTQ+ owned business.

Degrees

• MS, Arts Administration, Boston University
• BMA, Clarinet Performance, Boston University