Holly’s stories have received national and international media coverage. These works include a press release on Laurent Formery and Chris Lowe’s study that reveals the location of a starfish’s head and her magazine story on a promising treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

She writes stories on topics across the sciences, humanities, arts, and social sciences. These stories explore topics including culture and chess move choice, how tiny trackable pants and a “frog spa” helped researchers study spatial skills in poison frogs, a 500-year old authorship mystery in music, how wild radishes keep hungry caterpillars at bay, and identifying biases in biodiversity data.

She also enjoys writing about people. These profile stories, Q&As, obituaries, and announcements feature include stories on Dennis Sun, Tad Fukami, Marjorie Perloff, Albert Bandura, and Ted Geballe. She also planned the content, crafted and executed the social media coverage plans for, and wrote stories about several events including Grace Dorney Koppel and Ted Koppel at Stanford Medicine X, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy at Stanford Medicine, TEDxStanford 2014, the Stanford Roundtable 2014, and multiple Medicine X events.

In addition to writing and editing, Holly also helps writers and communicators craft and clarify the messages they want to convey to their audiences. This hidden first step of communication is often overlooked, but it is absolutely essential. When this planning phase is done right, the project unfolds beautifully. Holly is often sought out for this work and has planned many projects related to writing and communication.

Holly worked at Stanford University between 2013 and 2024. Most recently, she worked as the Associate Director, News Editor, and Science Writer for the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences (2021-2024). Previously she worked in roles for the Stanford School of Medicine, the Stanford School of Earth, and Stanford University Communications.

Holly lives in Oakland, California with her partner Phillip Wharton. She loves baking, being out in nature, gardening, and cats.