Molly Claflin graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Southern California in May, 2004. She received a B.A. in Political Science, with minors in News Media and Society and Gender Studies. She spent the summer of 2003 studying parliamentary politics at the University of Cambridge, England. In 2003, Molly received a national Harry S. Truman Scholarship for her work in politics and First Amendment issues, including starting the first American Civil Liberties Union chapter on the USC campus.

Molly has previously worked in the legislative offices of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and California Governor Gray Davis. Most recently she worked as a Truman Fellow doing speechwriting in the Office of the Chair at the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, DC.