She went on to receive her master's degree in Social Work in 1989. īarker attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, receiving a Bachelor of Science in chemistry in 1982. She began running competitively when she was 15 years old. Barker credits her mother for inviting her along on a run as the inspiration for taking up running. Her father, Hank Wilmer was active in Charlotte, NC, serving as Chairman of the Mecklenburg County Republican party. Her mother, Mary van der Voort Wilmer (1923-2002) was well regarded in the area of addiction recovery and treatment, and is one of the women profiled in "Women Coming out of the Shadows", sharing her story of addiction and recovery. Her sister, Helen Nance is the founder of Gray Stone Day School in Misenheimer, NC.
Barker has one brother and three sisters. She is best known as the founder of Girls on the Run.īarker was born in 1960 as Mary Wilmer in Charlotte, North Carolina to Mary van der Voort Wilmer and Henry "Hank" Bond Wilmer.
Molly Barker (born in 1960) is an American educator, triathlete and social visionary.
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