Maggie Orr is a trained as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Yale School of Nursing and did primary
care before staying home to care for her daughter, Mamie Rose, who died of
mitochondrialRelated to the mitochondria. disease (Complex I defect) in 2003. She has undergraduate degrees in
Spanish and Early Childhood Education from Arizona State University, and a master’s in
education from Harvard Graduate School of Education.