Adrienne Holloway

Key Qualifications and Responsibilities

• Effectively managed $1.8 billion budget comprised of public and private funding sources informed by data driven metrics to increase community stability throughout Harris County.
• Program execution in community engagement and development, infrastructure improvements and disaster relief initiatives which also includes awarding funding to myriad stakeholder partners.
• Developed intensive, ambitious business strategies, short-term goals, and long-term objectives.
• Led 400-member workforce across 4 business units, 14 divisions and 3 locations.

Key Achievements

• Secured additional $1B in funding for housing, social service and disaster relief programming during tenure.
• Facilitated development of department's first strategic plan.
• Increased program productivity by 75% evidenced in spending of grant funds.

Key Qualifications and Responsibilities

• Provided vision and leadership for new initiatives and responsible for continual implementation and improvement of existing programs.
• Coordinated development of data driven innovation strategy for City which included leading city’s efforts to collect, analyze and disseminate data to public and across City departments and promoting transparency through use of accessible data.
• Responsible for supervising and managing Innovation and Core Services Department which encompasses Community Services and Information Technology divisions, having budget of $35mm and over 40 staff members.

Key Achievements

• Developed city's first social entrepreneur coworking facility.
• Developed city's first free financial counseling enterprise.
• Developed city's first small business registration program and preferred procurement program.
• Enlarged technology and community development investments across city communities.

Key Qualifications and Responsibilities

• Taught various public policy and public administration graduate level courses, both in classroom and online.
• Served as advisor to over 30 graduate students; member of SPS Faculty Development Committee, Curriculum Team, Degree Program Committee, and Local Review Board; Chair of SPS Student Engagement Committee and served as DePaul University Chapter liaison to Pi Alpha Alpha Honor Society.

Key Achievements

• Increased Pi Alpha Alpha Honor Society membership 25% each year of responsibility.
• Served as founding faculty for Critical Ethnic Studies degree program and Asset Based Community Development program.

Key Qualifications and Responsibilities

• Taught and advised diverse student body of over 130 students across five political science courses each semester, in classroom and online.
• Authored and implemented active learning model that developed students’ understanding of political process.
• Evaluated and revised lesson plans and course content to achieve student-centered learning.

Key Achievements

• Recognized by leadership and faculty for development and execution of inaugural collaborative learning and service learning curriculum models.
• Used variety of learning modalities and support materials to facilitate learning process and accentuate presentations.