Kennedi Malone is a recent graduate from Agnes Scott College, earning her B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology alongside a minor in Public Health. She has leveraged her social science training across applied and community-based settings to ensure the equity of initiatives that shape our communities. In addition to her experience in political advocacy, program evaluation, and community organizing, Kennedi has served as a curriculum development intern at the social justice non-profit Justice for Black Girls, teaching self-designed Black Girlhood Studies curricula to Black girls ages 13-24 and strategizing with (inter)national, community-based organizations to secure the social safety of Black girls across the African Diaspora. Kennedi’s commitment to shaping equitable and healthful communities also finds its home in her scholarship. Her ethnographic research experiences in Bulgaria, Malta, and her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia have interrogated the impacts of inequitable, racialized development processes. She is incredibly eager to join the MDP program to deepen her understanding of 1) community-based approaches to development; 2) strategies for decolonizing the global health and development sector; and 3) the interrelated nature of localized and international development initiatives.