Holly serves as a Managing Director of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early-stage, high-impact social enterprises. She plays a lead role in sourcing new investments and working with the leadership of those organizations as an operating partner and board member as they grow to build capacity and achieve their maximum impact. Holly currently serves on the board of DRK grantees Child Poverty Action Lab, Texas Water Trade, Vida Water, the Oakland REACH, and Lone Star Justice Alliance.

Holly has over 25 years of public policy and leadership experience, serving in senior positions in the government, non-profit, and private sectors. She previously served as the Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute, a solution-oriented nonpartisan policy organization focused on ensuring opportunity, strengthening democracy, and advancing free societies. Holly led the team in developing and implementing major policy and programmatic initiatives on key issues of national and global importance.

She is a veteran of the White House, U.S. Department of Education, and Capitol Hill, where she developed her expertise in education policy. She served on the White House Domestic Policy Council staff and as Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs at the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to that, she worked for two United States Senators on domestic policy issues. She has also consulted on education and workforce issues with major foundations, companies, non-profits, and policymakers.

External to DRK, she serves on the boards of the Gates Policy Initiative and the Dallas Assembly. She is a graduate of Northwestern University.