Holly Bowles is the Director of Sexual Assault Victim Advocacy at the SAFE Alliance in Austin, Texas. Holly formally started in advocacy work as a volunteer in 2018 before joining SAFE full-time in early 2019. She has been a member of the Austin/Travis County SARRT and Comprehensive Sex Crimes Response Model reform project with Austin Police Department and has been a steering committee member with both entities. Her advocacy work has focused around multidisciplinary collaboration and cross-training to improve survivors' experience. She is the recipient of the 2023 Excellence in Advocacy Award from TAASA and has presented at the Texas IAFN Conference on the importance of nursing and advocacy collaboration. She is a lifelong Texan and holds a BS in Public Health with an emphasis on Social and Behavioral Health from the University of Texas at Austin.