OCRA, Acronyms, and Audra: The Nonprofit Multiverse of Madness

Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary

Episode Description

Audra Moran is the President and CEO of OCRA—Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance—which means she spends her days doing things most of us wouldn’t survive five minutes doing: merging nonprofits, leading national patient support programs, funding lifesaving research, surviving pharma grant hell, and trying to reach every woman in America who might be slipping through the cracks. We talk about her time working with the Helen Keller National Center (yes, she knows finger spelling), her accidental journey into cancer nonprofit leadership, the weirdness of dermoid cysts, the ridiculousness of writing grants, and the absolute hellscape of diagnosis delay. Oh, and the fallopian tubes. You’ll never look at them the same way again.

This episode is funny, raw, deeply personal, and loaded with Gen X movie references and random facts about Paul Rudd, Terminator 2, and flipbook apps at 3am. Audra drops wisdom, humility, and a few hot takes on AI, advocacy, and what it really means to lead when the boulder keeps rolling downhill.

RELATED LINKS

Audra Moran on LinkedIn

Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA)

Audra's profile on OCRA

CURE Today interview: Leading the Fight

OCRA + AI & Data: Overlooked Podcast

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