McKenzie Richards is a Policy Associate at Pacific Research Institute where she writes on issues pertaining to health care and education. She is pursuing her master’s at Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Brigham Young University. During college, McKenzie left home for a year and a half to serve the people of northern Argentina. There, she saw first-hand how a lack of free-market principles harms individual lives. McKenzie is a 2021-2022 Stand Together Fellow in Health Care Policy and an ISI Honors Scholar. Additionally, she is a recipient of the DeVos Leadership Award