Molly Lynn Amick ’86

Molly Lynn Amick ’86—a nurse practitioner for 22 years, self-avowed “research junkie,” and advocate for what she called “a self-determined death”—died March 31, 2018. Molly was well-known locally as a compassionate health care provider, activist, gardener, artist, mother, wife, and friend. She was an advocate for the underprivileged, penned guest comments for this publication and spoke at local government meetings. At Dartmouth she earned a bachelor’s in English, and participated in the environmental studies foreign study program, student workshops, and the Dartmouth Community for Divestment. She went on to earn the first of three master’s, this one in mass communications from Pennsylvania State University. She also traveled extensively, working on a documentary about female farmers in Kenya and other African nations, teaching English in Japan, and backpacking across Spain. Molly then earned a master’s as a family nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt University and moved to Chico, California, in 1997 to practice at a health clinic in Los Molinos. She worked there seven years and, after becoming pregnant with son Atticus in 1999, moved on to a series of private practices and health clinics in Chico. Molly and Sterling started dating in May 2007 and married in 2008. She earned a master’s as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in 2013 at Fresno State University and worked at Chico’s Iversen Wellness & Recovery Center and collaborated with Butte County Behavioral Health and Northern Valley Catholic Social Service to develop programming. She is survived by Atticus and Sterling.