Latoya Bartley is a rising senior at Mercer University, double majoring in History and Anthropology  with a minor in Global Health Studies. As a 2025 finalist for the Truman Foundation scholarship, she is deeply committed to public service and driven by the power of community. She aspires to devote her career to improving health outcomes for Black Americans, particularly Black mothers, through law and policy. Her historical and anthropological research on racial healthcare disparities  gives her unique perspectives on policy issues and universal inequalities. Last summer, she began interning at the Georgia Department of Public Health's district office in Macon, Georgia, where she assists in a range of community-health centered events catered to the most vulnerable populations.  Hand-picked to serve on a service-learning abroad trip to Tanzania in Summer 2023, she helped expand a gender-based violence curriculum for secondary school students and will participate in a similar project this upcoming summer in Uganda. Her goal is to harness her liberal arts education to better incorporate the lived experiences of marginalized communities into the creation of health law and public policy. After graduation, she intends to earn a Juris Doctor and pursue a fulfilling career as an attorney and policymaker.