About Us

We exist for the kid who's going through it right now.

Our Team

Meet the team.

Outside Support is an early-stage organization with a focused team and strong research foundations. Here's who is building it.

Molly McCarthy
Chief Executive Officer

Molly McCarthy has spent her career building things from scratch — inside Fortune 500 companies and venture-backed startups alike. When she discovered Dr. Swearer's research and saw firsthand what the BELONG program did for the kids who went through it, she knew she had found her next challenge: getting this into the hands of every middle schooler who needs it.

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Jim Moran
Founder

Jim co-founded one of the largest market data providers and is now an early stage technology investor. Having experienced bullying growing up, Jim was excited about telehealth enabling a way to connect with others in similar situations but at different schools. He founded Outside Support in partnership with the BRAVE Lab to develop an evidence based peer support program.

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Advisors

We are supported by experts in child and adolescent psychiatry, family therapy, bullying research, and program implementation.

Prof. Sue Swearer, PhD
Willa Cather Professor and Director, BRAVE Lab
  • Willa Cather Professor of Educational Psychology and Director, Bullying Research and Victim Empowerment (BRAVE) Lab, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  • Co-Director, Bullying Research Network.
  • Licensed school psychologist focused on bullying prevention, school climate, and youth mental health.
  • Former Professional Counselor, Center for Pediatric Psychiatry, Children's Medical Center of Dallas.
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Dr. Sara Heron, MD
Executive Director, Bay Children's Services
  • Child and adolescent psychiatrist.
  • MD, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine; psychiatry residency at UCSF; child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Stanford University.
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Dr. Thomas Tarshis, MD
Child psychiatrist and bullying/victimization expert
  • Former AACAP spokesperson on bullying and victimization.
  • Author of Living with Peer Pressure and Bullying.
  • Author of the Peer Interactions in Primary School (PIPS) Survey.
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Amanda Hinson, JD
Marriage and family therapy graduate intern
  • Graduate student intern in marriage and family therapy at Insights Collaborative Therapy Group, supervised by Mary Sanger, LPC-S, LMFT-S.
  • Previously at Gibson Dunn and Mercer Management Consulting.
  • Southern Methodist University (MS expected May 2026), Harvard Law (JD), Harvard College (AB, Physics).
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Emilea Rejman, M.A., PLMHP
Project Director, BELONG (BRAVE Lab)
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  • Doctoral candidate in school psychology at UNL, supervised by Dr. Sue Swearer.
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