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Molly Murphy

Murphy

Molly Murphy

Organization

Rappaport Center at Boston College Law School

Program

Rappaport Law and Public Policy Fellow

Year

2026

Rappaport Public Policy Fellows spend 10 weeks each summer serving within the highest levels of state and municipal governments in the Greater Boston area. The program includes students from graduate and professional programs at local universities.

Molly Murphy is a rising 2L at Boston College Law School. Prior to law school, Murphy had a career in political fundraising working on campaigns at the national, statewide, congressional, and local level. Her campaign experiences include serving as US Senator Patty Murray’s national finance director, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s deputy finance director, and as a member of President Biden’s 2020 Tri-State finance team. Most recently, she ran her own political fundraising consultancy helping candidates and political nonprofits develop and execute their finance programs. She is an honors graduate of Williams College with a BA in American Studies and Art History. At BC Law, she is involved in the Public Interest Law Foundation, If/When/How, and the American Constitution Society. Murphy will spend her summer in the Attorney General’s Housing Affordability Unit. Her mentors are Paige Scott Reed, partner at Prince Lobel, former chief legal counsel for Governor Maura Healey and Rappaport Center board member, as well as Sam Dinning, chief of staff and policy at the City of Boston law department.