Season 3 | Episode #17 with Board member of the Lupus Research Alliance, Lupus Advocate and Lupus Patient, Molly McCabe
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Season THREE Episode SEVENTEEN of the Your Story Our Fight® podcast welcomes Molly McCabe. Molly McCabe began her career at the young age of 16 when she joined the inaugural board for the Kids Making Miracles program at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. She also was part of the founding family that created Potluck in the Park in 1993 where she served the homeless every Sunday for three years. Molly worked as a CASA and served on the Family Council of the Scripps family.
Molly and her mother, Debbie McCabe, created the nonprofit, Molly’s Fund Fighting Lupus, in 2007 and she served on the board for ten years there. Molly has been a lupus advocate for over 17 years, wherein she was a patient advocate for GlaxoSmithKline, and reviewed grants for the Lupus Research Program at the Department of Defense CDMRP for three years.
She was given the Spirit Award from the Autoimmune Advocacy Alliance in 2014 for extraordinary spirit, dedication and community support while living with autoimmunity. In 2019, Molly was honored at the Breaking Through Gala for the Lupus Research Alliance. She also received the 2021 Community Spirit Award from the Randall Children’s Hospital Kite Society.
Currently, she is on the board of the Lupus Research Alliance, Randall Children’s Hospital, and the Mirimar Impact Fund. In 2019, she established the Karen Reiter Scholarship at the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition and is the Business Manager for Mata Advocacy and Support. She has serves as a judge for the White House Fellowship program for the past two years. She is also the proprietor of an art gallery in Portland, Oregon, “The Lobby.” Molly McCabe is the founder of the Use Your Voice competition.