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, and the Oakland REACH.

Holly previously served as Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute, where she led the team in developing and implementing major policy and programmatic initiatives on key domestic and global issues. Earlier in her career, she had policy roles at the White House, served as the Senate-confirmed Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs at the U.S. Department of Education, and was a legislative staffer on Capitol Hill. 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, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and the Dallas Assembly.