Holly Mandel is from St. Louis, Missouri and spent several years in Los Angeles, California as well before moving to New York City, where she currently resides. She is the marketing director for EnlightenNext's New York Center along with being a certified instructor of Evolutionary Enlightenment.

Holly has worked in marketing and advertising for Comedy Central and ABC Television and has also been an improvisational performer for many years.  She started her own improv school in 2002, Improvolution!, and is looking to use performance and improv as tools to express and transmit the principles of Evolutionary Enlightenment.