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MacKenzie Bills

MacKenzie Bills is a Report Editor for the International Religious Freedom Report for the U.S. State Department where she focuses on countries in Africa and Southeast Asia. In her spare time, she supports the Religious Freedom Center at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. as a Civil Dialogue Facilitator and Trainer. MacKenzie is an interfaith and civic engagement activist and serves as an organizing member for the DMV Interfaith Summit as well as on the Andrew Goodman Foundation's Alumni Association's Executive Board. Previously., she was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Malaysia working to engage religious minorities in a Muslim state as well as youth activism. Bills is most interested in comparative religious understanding in international policy, but specializes in the study of secularism. She can be reached at [email protected]

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I grew up in the ghettos surrounding Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, an East African country, in an area called Kisenyi, one of the most prominent ghettos in Kampala

Freedom of Marriage: a Plight and Dream for Millions

What happens when a Muslim and a Hindu in India fall in love? MacKenzie Bills, a Fulbright English Teacher Assistant, shares what she learned.

Freeing religion from ethnicity: what I learned in Malaysia

MacKenzie Bills, a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Malaysia, discusses the problem of conflating religion and ethnicity, and how it endangers true freedom of religion.

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