President of Helicon Collaborative
Holly is a strategic planner, program developer and fundraiser with more than 25 years’ experience leading and developing nonprofit cultural and philanthropic organizations. Prior to founding Helicon, she was a Principal at AEA Consulting, an international arts consulting firm, where she guided strategic organizational, program and policy planning with a wide range of clients including the Doris Duke Charitable Trust, James Irvine Foundation, Missouri Botanical Garden and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Prior to her work at AEA, Holly was the founding president of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), a ten-year initiative to expand support for creative artists; Program Director for arts, urban parks and adult literacy at the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund; and interim director of arts and culture at the Ford Foundation and The Howard Gilman Foundation, among other leadership positions. She holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and a Management Certificate from Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and teenage daughter.
