Mary spent the first half of her career as an Associate Dean and Professor at Fordham University’s Business School, where she also taught. In the next chapter of her career, She turned her focus to revitalizing nonprofits, serving as Executive Director of two different nonprofits—one dedicated to educating and empowering underserved women with business skills and job placement, and another, a community center in a housing project on the brink of bankruptcy. She successfully reopened, restructured, and fundraised for both organizations, ensuring their long-term financial stability.

In 2019, Mary founded Seniors Taking Action, an organization committed to mobilizing older Americans in the fight for democracy. What started with writing postcards has since evolved into a powerful advocacy network engaged in letters to the editor, editorials, op-eds, and weekly Zoom discussions. STA has 1500 members in 15 states. In the work with Seniors Taking Action, it was discovered that there were many senior groups around the country and it was decided that they could be much more powerful if they were united as one voice. Thus, recently, we started We the Seniors. We currently have 38 groups in 16 states and hundreds of individual members.

After a 25-year career as a maternity wear designer and owner of her own maternity wear manufacturing company, Judy joined Emily’s list as the Northeast regional coordinator. During the 18 years that she worked there, she raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Democratic women running for all levels of government. A couple of months ago, Mary and I founded We the Seniors.