Moira studied social anthropology at Vassar College and Princeton University. She then worked for payment companies in the US and Latin America and lived in Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and several US cities. Among other positions, Moira was vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean at Western Union, senior vice president at Vantiv/Worldpay, and head of US marketing and global product marketing at Amazon Pay. Thirty years after her college graduation she received an MA in biology from Miami University in Ohio. She is currently the Senior Marketing Manager at the Seattle Aquarium.

Moira has two grown children and lives in Seattle with her husband, Steven Aday, and their three cats. She enjoys watching golden lion tamarins in zoos but can’t wait to go to Brazil and see them in their natural habitat.