Holly Powers is the Institutional Donor Marketing and Strategy Manager at Catholic Relief Services (CRS). In this role, she supports program and business development teams by leveraging evidence-based results from current development and humanitarian programming to engage donors and position for future funding.
Before joining CRS, Holly worked for USAID as a regional communications officer for Southern Africa and later as the Senior Health Communications Specialist for the U.S. Embassy in Uganda, managing health communications for six U.S. government agencies. In this role, she first collaborated with PVI and supported the development of USG-funded episodes of N*Gen.
Holly holds an MBA in Marketing and International Entrepreneurial Development from the University of Notre Dame and currently lives in Sri Lanka with her family. She has previously lived in Egypt, South Africa, and Uganda through her overseas work.