(she, her, hers) Marie Thearle, M.D., M.HSc, is a volunteer with Moms Demand Action as the Phoenix local group lead. She is a retired physician (endocrinologist) whose encore career is as an adjunct professor of microbiology and a small business owner consulting on clinical research projects and biostatistics. As a mother of two children, she is passionate about working to reduce the public health crisis that is gun violence (in all its forms).