Resident, Ward 1
Holly Flood has 30+ years of experience managing and administering government and foundation grants and contracts. Over her career she designed, managed, and supported international development, crisis response, humanitarian assistance, and social service programs of all sizes and levels of complexity in the U.S. and abroad. She brings extensive supervisory management experience and proven technical writing, grant writing, and fundraising capabilities. During her career, Ms. Flood lived in Angola, Colombia, Kenya, Paraguay, Peru, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Türkiye, and traveled to and/or worked in 50+ countries in all parts of the world. She now works as a grants and corporate relations specialist at Christ House, a non-profit located in Ward 1’s Adams Morgan neighborhood that provides medical respite care and wraparound services for people experiencing homelessness in Washington, DC.
Holly served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, and later as Peace Corps’ Country Director in Sierra Leone. She spent several years resettling newly arriving refugees in the D.C. area and across the United States. She has served as a poll worker here in the District, and as a volunteer election observer in Paraguay, Peru, and Mozambique. Other volunteer work has ranged from tutoring high school students to helping job applicants prepare their resumes to responding to poetry written by incarcerated people, and more. She is currently a volunteer long-term care ombudsman specialist through AARP’s Legal Counsel for the Elderly’s Office of the DC Long-Term Care Ombudsman. She is also a community notary.
A proud native Washingtonian, long-time Ward 1 resident, avid reader, and enthusiastic D.C. library user from an early age, Ms. Flood attended D.C. public schools and is a graduate of the Duke Ellington School of the Performing Arts (valedictorian, class of 1982). She holds a B.A. in English from The Catholic University of America, and an M.A. in International Affairs from The George Washington University. She speaks advanced Spanish, as well as basic Portuguese and a little Guarani.