Mackenzie Darling

Mackenzie Darling (she/her) is the post-graduate legal fellow for the Sissy Farenthold Reproductive Justice Defense Project at the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice.

Mackenzie was the 2022/23 Maeve McKean' Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow at Georgetown, where she worked with HIPS and the O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law on the campaigns to decriminalize sex work and drug possession in the District of Columbia. She was also a 2023/24 If/When/How Federal Reproductive Justice Fellow, where she where she worked on federal reproductive health policy advocacy at Physicians for Reproductive Health. Prior to joining the Rapoport Center, Mackenzie worked as a fellow with The Sentencing Project, advocating for extreme sentencing reform. Mackenzie holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.S. in Public Health from the University at Albany and a J.D. from Northeastern School of Law, with concentrations in Health Law & Policy and Poverty Law & Economic Justice. Her work focuses on the intersection of decarceration and bodily autonomy.