I co-founded The Capstone Group, a full-service public affairs and government relations firm representing fortune 500 companies, non-profits, and trade associations. Our bipartisan relationships, decades of experience at the Colorado state capitol, and historical knowledge of Colorado politics ensure our clients achieve effective public policy objectives. Our firm has also engaged on behalf of clients at the city and county government level, monitoring council agendas and meetings, engaging local stakeholders, meeting with local officials, and preparing op-eds for local news. I have experience representing clients on K-12 education policy, higher education issues, human services, and health care policy.

Moira has built expertise in K-12 education, higher education, human services, child welfare, mental health, budget and non-profit advocacy. She lobbied successfully to pass legislation creating Colorado's Full Day Kindergarten program, and has worked to ensure equitable funding for Colorado's public charter schools. Moira has worked to ensure Colorado has a robust accountability system for Colorado's K-12 schools and districts, helped pass Colorado's teacher effectiveness standards and successfully lobbied for new literacy standards and interventions for K-3 students. In the higher education space, Moira has successfully lobbied for the creation and expansion of concurrent enrollment, requiring the transfer of credits and degrees from 2 year to 4-year state institutions. allowing community colleges to offer Bachelor of Science degree in nursing, streamling and standardizing the process for military veterans to get credit at state higher education institutions for equivalent course credit and ensuring funding for Colorado's community colleges. She has worked on seminal issues such as payday lending reform, establishing preventive health programs for low income families and securing support to expand Early Childhood Education programs.

20+ years

The Capstone Group maintains relationships with legislative leadership, the Joint Budget Committee, all members of the legislature, the Governor's Office, and executive branch officials.

Born and raised in Alexandria, VA, Moira developed her love of the political process early in life. Upon graduation from the University of Virginia, she moved to Denver in search of a great adventure in the West. After working as counselor with adolescents in a residential treatment center, she received her Masters of Social Work at Colorado State University and decided to pursue a career in public policy and advocacy, merging her love of the political process with her passion to advocate on issues affecting at-risk kids. She began her lobbying career at the Colorado Children's Campaign where she lobbied on child health, K-12 education, youth violence prevention, and early childhood education. Moira then served as the legislative liaison for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment before founding, with her two partners, The Capstone Group. Moira was the founding State Director for Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) Colorado, currently serves on the DFER Colorado Advisory Committee and is a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Girl Rising Global Education Fund. For nine years, Moira served on the board of Strive Prep charter school network, including 3 years as Board Chair, where she loved being a part of an 11-school community that is breaking down barriers and providing high quality, rigorous education for primarily low-income students of color.