Holly A. Parker

Chief Strategy and Program Officer

Holly Parker is a mission-driven leader with over two decades of experience advancing opportunity and impact across food systems, workforce development, and community health. Since 2017, she has helped shape the strategic direction of Fair Food Network, where she currently leads organizational strategy, steering the organization’s program and policy work toward its mission of growing community health, wealth, and resilience through food.

In her role, Holly oversees the impact of Fair Food Network’s core initiatives — including nutrition incentives, impact investing, and policy — ensuring they are aligned, integrated, and advancing the organization’s aim to connect people to the power of food. She also plays a central role in guiding national strategy and partner engagement within the Nutrition Incentive Hub, a USDA-funded coalition of partners helping communities expand access to healthy food.

Before joining Fair Food Network, Holly built a career rooted in community development and social impact. She has held leadership roles in workforce development, disability and at-risk youth services, and nonprofit program evaluation and strategy. She began her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Eastern Europe and has remained committed to public service and systems-level change ever since.

Holly holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. A proud native of Flint, she is grateful to be living and working close to home in Ann Arbor, where she enjoys her husband’s cooking (and company!) and tries to keep up with her two kids. In her spare time, she can be found running, reading, or enjoying very strong local coffee.