Moira is, foremost, a reproductive justice organizer.
Currently, she works to advance Medicare for All, Medicare expansion, and progressive health equity legislation as the Healthcare Policy Fellow in the Office of Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, in the United States House of Representatives. Through forging partnerships with stakeholders, constituent groups, and House and Senate Member offices, she defines and refines the American progressive movement’s healthcare Congressional strategy in the 117th Congress.
Moira plays a pivotal role in Medicare and Medicaid oversight, Medicaid Expansion through Affordable Care Act, Section 1115 waivers, and Alternative Payment Model policy reform in the Biden Administration. She leads the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s legislative engagement with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to shape policies on value-based care and reassess federal reimbursement structures, while also driving bipartisan collaboration on payer transparency and regulatory compliance.
Prior to working in the House, Moira was a secondary education instructor in Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco. From 2019 to 2021, Moira was the Program Assistant for the Department of Reproductive Rights & Health of National Women’s Law Center, where she provided programmatic and administrative support to legal, state, and federal advocacy efforts.
In college, Moira served as an intern in the Congressional offices of Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative James P. McGovern (MA-02) and for the Political department of the National Institute for Reproductive Health. In 2018, Moira was selected as a Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps intern for the Ohio Justice & Policy Center, where she provided legal assistance for the Incarcerated Survivors of Domestic Violence and Survivors of Human Trafficking projects and conducted legal research on commuted capital punishment sentencing. Her passion for reproductive justice was fostered through Civil Liberties & Public Policy, and she has helped plan its annual reproductive justice conference and has spoken at the opening plenary.
Moira is an alumna of the Movement Makers Leadership Program at the National Network of Abortion Funds and currently serves on the Leadership Council of Advocates for Youth’s Young Women of Color for Reproductive Justice Collective. She conducted her senior thesis research on the political and judicial trajectory of abortion access under Professor Marlene Gerber Fried for which she was named a David Smith Endowment Fund scholar. In the spring of 2019, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought from Hampshire College.
Moira is passionate about the decolonization of health, decriminalization, and decarceration and has spoken on these issues at Yale Law School, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and most recently, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
In her spare time, she loves to dance ballet, surf, and learn her 5th and 6th languages spoken, Arabic and Cantonese.