Holly Truitt.

Holly Truitt is a designer and facilitator who helps organizations  catalyze community-based change. With more than 20 years of experience guiding public and private organizations through uncharted transformations, Holly is a nationally respected author, researcher, and presenter.
beautiful Holly in black leather jacket in a garden

Holly’s work has secured more than $13 million in funding and drawn support from large foundations, thriving municipalities, flagship universities, and world-class libraries and museums. A sought-after speaker, Holly has presented at HATCH, Parenthood: The Unconference, MIT’s Science Festival Alliance, TedX, the National Science Foundation, AudPop, and others. In 2014, she was named among the Missoulian newspaper’s “20 Under 40,” and in 2013, she was awarded a global Noyce Fellowship. A visiting student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health during her graduate studies, Holly is a lecturer at Stanford d. school. She lives in Missoula, Montana with her husband and son.

Committed to her community, she is engaged in the Missoula Downtown Association, gives her time as a Powerhouse Montana mentor, and serves on the board of the Missoula United Way.

Podcasts

Episode 032: Holly Truitt: Community Creator, Coalition Builder, and Change Maker

– Justin Angle

Power of Feminine Design Thinking

– California Institute of Integral Studies

Science Events Spotlight #2

– MIT’s Science Festival Alliance

Published Articles

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Co-creating Transformative Change

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Coming Under One Roof

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Learning from Nordic Culture Houses

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Learning to Move Collectively

– Holly Truitt

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Meet the Design Mystics

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Teaching and Learning Yearbook 2020-2021, D.School

– Holly Truitt + Meenu Singh page 109

In the Media

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Childhood loss: How it primed me to lead change

– TEDX Talk. In this talk, Holly describes how her own experiences of loss and support led her to become a change agent in her own community.
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TERS students spend day at the Bison Range learning about Traditional Ecological Knowledge

– news article on a HTC + Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes co-designed project

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Creating change: Missoula’s Holly Truitt teaching design lab at Stanford

– Missoula Current
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Meet the Design Mystics

– Holly Truitt