Adrienne Holloway

AMNY Consulting Group is a boutique advisory practice serving nonprofit organizations and governmental entities on federal grants management, strategic planning, fund development, and organizational capacity building. Clients include community development organizations, social service agencies and local government agencies navigating complex federal funding environments including CDBG, CDBG-DR, HOME, and ARPA programs. The firm designs systems and infrastructure that outlast any single engagement.

Teaching political science at the college level while maintaining an active consulting practice in federal housing policy and community development, a combination that shapes both how I approach course content and what students take from it. Courses draw on foundational political science frameworks while consistently connecting those frameworks to the policy systems, governmental structures, and community development institutions that students will encounter as civic participants and future practitioners.

The consulting practice is not separate from the teaching, it is the source material. When course content addresses federal policy implementation, housing finance, local government capacity, or community development finance, the examples are grounded in direct field experience rather than textbook abstractions. That practitioner-to-classroom transfer is a deliberate pedagogical choice and one that distinguishes this appointment from traditional academic instruction.

Also serve in an advising and mentoring capacity, supporting students, particularly those from communities underrepresented in civic and public sector careers, in developing a clearer understanding of how government and policy systems work and how they can engage with those systems effectively.

Program execution included direct grant awards to nonprofit organizations and housing developers, management of in-house housing stability and infrastructure programs, and coordination across county agencies and external partners to ensure alignment between federal requirements and community-level outcomes.

Also served concurrently as a Director on the Harris County Housing Finance Corporation, Chair of the Harris County Redevelopment Authority, and Director of the Harris County Community Land Trust Management Corporation; governance roles that reflected the breadth of the county's housing and community development ecosystem and the policy-level responsibilities attached to this executive appointment.

Served as Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Aurora, Illinois, the second-largest city in the state, with executive oversight of the Community Services and Information Technology Divisions. The role was designed to identify and implement structural improvements to government operations, resident services, and cross-sector partnerships, with particular emphasis on how the city delivered housing, social services, and community development programs to its diverse population. One significant accomplishment of this tenure was the establishment of Kane County's first permanent supportive housing program, an initiative that required navigating federal funding frameworks, building partnerships with nonprofit service providers and housing developers, and making the case internally for a model that had strong evidence behind it but no local precedent. The program became a reference point for regional housing advocates and demonstrated that mid-sized municipalities could develop and sustain supportive housing infrastructure without the resources of a major urban center.

Overseeing Community Services provided direct continuity with the community development and housing work that had defined earlier phases of my career. Overseeing Information Technology alongside it required a different kind of institutional leadership, managing a division with distinct professional culture, operational rhythms, and stakeholder expectations while maintaining coherence across both functions.

Also served during this period as Chair of the City of Aurora Hispanic Heritage Advisory Board, a community governance role focused on strengthening the relationship between Aurora's Hispanic community and municipal government, reflecting both the demographic context of the city and a longstanding commitment to equity-centered community engagement.

Served as a full-time faculty member in the School of Public Service for seven years, teaching graduate-level courses across four degree programs including public administration, nonprofit management, and community development. Brought an active research agenda and practitioner perspective into the classroom, grounding policy and program theory in the realities of how housing systems, community development finance, and government capacity actually function.

Research during this period focused on housing access and mobility for low-income households in the Chicago metropolitan region, with particular attention to Latino and African American households navigating changing neighborhood conditions. Published peer-reviewed work examining whether federally assisted households were accessing opportunity neighborhoods — a question with direct implications for how HUD and local governments design and evaluate housing choice programs.

Contributed to departmental curriculum development and university service throughout the appointment. Maintained an active connection to practice through consulting and community engagement, ensuring that graduate students were exposed to field-grounded analysis alongside theoretical frameworks.