Kara Curry is a Senior Policy and Ethics Advisor at the American Nurses Association Center for Ethics and Human Rights. Her clinical practice experience includes surgical oncology, forensic nursing, and perioperative nursing.  After spending years at the bedside, her participation as an inaugural member of a hospital-wide nurse ethics committee led to her interest in healthcare ethics.  This interest led her to pursue graduate studies in bioethics, completing her Master of Arts in Bioethics from Loyola University Chicago.  She has served as a pediatric clinical ethicist in Washington, DC developing a true passion for the ethical complexities and challenges experienced in the field of pediatrics. She is published in the American Journal of Bioethics and the American Academy of Pediatrics Journal, Hospital Pediatrics. Her ethical interests are in nursing ethics, ethics education within the nursing profession, environmental justice, pediatric ethics, dementia ethics, as well as exploring intersectionality and the role it plays in the health outcomes of black women.