Molly Tierney

She leads Accenture’s Child Welfare team in delivering rapid-cycle consulting services and designing innovative technologies with and for caseworkers, supervisors and other stakeholders throughout the child welfare ecosystem. These technologies include the Accenture Case Insights Solution (ACIS) and the award-winning Accenture Virtual Experience Solution (AVEnueS). AVEnueS offers virtual reality experiences to human services case workers, supervisors and other stakeholders. Through various scenarios, people can build their capacity for navigating complexity and nuance—including addressing racial equity and providing trauma-informed care.

Although Molly holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina and a master’s degree from Loyola University, she credits real-life experiences as the most effective classroom. She began her career in community organizing with vulnerable populations throughout Appalachia, where she learned that opportunity is not doled out equitably in our country.

When Molly and her wife decided to start their family, she knew their journey would start in foster care, and in 2013, they adopted their daughter. Molly is grateful that the days in which her family would have been denied recognition or acceptance are behind them and she continues to forge new paths for others to follow.