For 12 years, Dr. Gearon studied the prevalence rate and impact of sexual and physical abuse on drug-addicted women with serious mental illnesses in the inner-city of Baltimore as a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland. With her busy private practice and raising two children, she never dreamed that she would be willing, much less, able to add a full-time job as political activist – that is until the 2016 Presidential election.