Moira McCarthy

Moira McCarthy is a Massachusetts-based award-winning news reporter, magazine feature writer, and author. She splits her time between writing about travel, adventure, and skiing for both SKI magazine and the Boston Herald and covering health topics for a variety of outlets. She’s been awarded the National Newspaper Association Feature Story of the year multiple times as well as the Associated Press’s national news coverage award. A passionate advocate for type 1 diabetes, she was named the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s International Volunteer of the year. You can find her on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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