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Moelis was born to a Jewish family, the daughter of Gaye (née Gross) and Herbert I. Moelis, president of Equity Leasing Corporation, an office equipment company in New York, of which her grandfather, Paul I. Gross was its retired president Her father is also a breeder of thoroughbred race horses at his CandyLand Stables in Middletown, Delaware.
She graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and earned a Juris Doctor from Stanford University Law School in 1987.
She has two brothers: Ronald and Kenneth. After school, she worked as an assistant to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley for social policy where she worked with Michelle Obama, as a program officer at the Steans Family Foundation, as an Executive Director of a citywide youth development project for the President of the MacArthur Foundation, as a legislative advocate and researcher for the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse in Chicago, and as the Executive Director of the Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation where she supported efforts to improve Chicago’s public education system. On April 9, 2009, she was appointed director of the Presidential Commission on White House Fellows by President Barack Obama succeeding Janet Eissenstat.
