Mary Clare Lynch’s career was in non-profit management. She was Director of Publishing and Media Relations for ANSI, Director of Operations for the Glaucoma Foundation, and Program Manager at Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. She volunteered at Calvary Hospital in NYC, the nation’s only fully accredited acute care specialty hospital devoted to providing palliative care to adult, advanced cancer patients. After retiring to Arizona, she served as Executive Director of FCAAZ.