Molly Sear received her BA in philosophy from St. Bonaventure University in 1992 and her MA in Bioethics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2021. Her MA thesis is entitled Ethical Issues in Use of Crowdfunding to Finance Healthcare. She is currently a Patient Advocate for Travere Therapeutics. Prior to that, she worked as an Analyst in the University of California San Francisco’s Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, and in the fields of nutrition and PTSD research, managing human subject trials.