Notable achievements included having two songs featured on the MTV show The Real World,[1] being selected as official showcase artists at the CMJ Music Marathon,[2][3] and performing live on Minnesota public radio station KCMP 89.3 The Current.
[4] After leaving Aviette, Muñoz was commissioned by the Jerome Foundation to compose and perform an improvisational music piece at The Cedar Cultural Center[5] and later relocated from Minneapolis to San Francisco.
The album was a concept record inspired by Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger and featured Vicki Peterson from The Bangles and Matthew Caws of Nada Surf.
[19] Holly Muñoz co-founded and served on the board of the Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute (formerly known as the Rock Star Supply Company), a non-profit creative writing and tutoring center in the Twin Cities.
[20][21] She also served on the board of Voice of Witness,[22] an organization that uses oral history and education programs to illuminate contemporary human rights crises both domestically and internationally.