Mackenzie Stoeltje is a Qualitative/Project Management Graduate Research Assistant with the Human Exploitation and Resilience Initiative and a Research Assistant with the Litmus program at NYU Marron and is a graduate student pursuing her Master of Public Health in NYU's Global Public Health program. Many of her projects focus on gender-responsiveness and justice and she is currently living in Mexico to work on a project on LGBTQ health disparities and gender violence. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity from University of California, Davis.