Clay Holk

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About Clay Holk

Clay Holk, a US Army veteran and native of Magnolia Springs, Alabama, has spent his career building bridges between the public, private and social sectors. As the inaugural Grants Director for the State of Oklahoma, Clay Holk helped state and local governments respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and stood up the State's first Broadband Office, engaging public and private sector leaders on reducing the digital divide. While at the City of Tulsa, he led early COVID response efforts to support both the health and economic well-being of the city. He is a recent graduate of the Kellogg School of Management and the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was awarded the Taubman Center Prize for Outstanding Research on Urban Issues for his thesis on Affordable Housing policy in Tulsa. At HKS, Clay served as Chairperson for the 19th Annual Social Enterprise Conference at Harvard, the largest student conference on campus, which drew over 1,250 participants from across the field of Social Impact. Prior to his graduate work, Clay served as an Armor Officer in the United States Army, developed the early strategy and analytics efforts at the American Red Cross and worked in investment banking for JPMorgan Chase in New York. Clay received his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, where he studied International Relations.