Halley Moore has a wide-ranging background spanning the fields of teaching, writing, marketing, manufacturing and park advocacy. After graduating from Dartmouth College, Halley Moore began her career at Simon & Schuster/Viacom in New York City, where she worked in publicity and marketing. In 1997, she became a founder of Team Wendy, a Cleveland helmet company started in memory of her sister, who died as a result of a brain injury sustained while skiing. In its early years, Halley served as President and CEO of the company, which raises the bar for head protection through the use of innovative technologies and designs for military, law enforcement and search and rescue markets. She remained on the board of directors of Team Wendy until its sale to Avon Protection PLC in 2020 and is currently on the board of directors of Dan T. Moore Company. She continues her work in the brain injury advocacy space by advancing research on blast, blunt impact, and neurodegenerative processes with multiple entities.
Halley is former chair and current member of the board of trustees of the Wendy Park Foundation, which was instrumental in advocating for and partially funding the Wendy Park Bridge, a pedestrian bridge that provides direct access to Wendy Park from the west side of the Cuyahoga River in downtown Cleveland. The bridge is the endpoint of the Cleveland Foundation Centennial Lake Link Trail, which connects Lake Erie with the Towpath trail.
Halley and her husband, Jason Drake, own a conserved wetlands property in Burton purchased in 2015 from the Western Reserve Land Conservancy. The property’s many springs constitute part of the Cuyahoga headwaters network and is a rich habitat and migratory stop for countless species.
While earning an MFA in fiction writing from New York University, Halley taught creative writing at NYU and led poetry workshops in the NYC public schools for Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Following graduate school, she worked at NYU for six additional years teaching expository writing to undergraduates and mentoring new faculty, and then returned to Cleveland with her growing family.