Mackenzie Saunders is a legal intern for the League of Women Voters of the United States and a 2L at Harvard Law School. Mackenzie graduated from Arizona State University with degrees in Political Science, Economics, and Justice and Social Inquiry.
Before law school, she ran a city council campaign, directed a national disability nonprofit, and served as a DEI disability consultant for different companies and nonprofits across the U.S.
At HLS, Mackenzie is a Teaching Fellow for Professor Crystal Yang’s Criminal Law course and a Legal Intern for Harvard Law’s Project on Disability. Mackenzie worked for the ACLU Disability Rights Program last summer, and for Protect Democracy last fall. This summer, she will work with Southern Poverty Law Center’s voting rights litigation practice group.
In her free time, Mackenzie goes to Diamondbacks and Red Sox games, speaks at public storytelling competitions, and runs weekly trivia nights at the HLS Pub.