Natalie Moulton-Levy, M.D., HJI's founder, is a board-certified physician with 20 years of experience. During her years of practice, Dr. Moulton-Levy has experienced inequities in medicine first hand. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, she volunteered to work at a hospital caring for COVID patients, which shed new light on the realities of medical inequities. Her medical practice before COVID allowed her to engage in problems of inequity on an individual-patient basis, however, she reached a place in her career in which she was ready to address these issues on a more systemic scale. As such, she made the decision to go to law school. Because of the structural dimension of medical inequity, a law degree enables her to take an intersectional approach to addressing the legal aspects of the healthcare system in the United States to better advocate for those whose voices are not being heard for a variety of reasons. Thus, she started HJI, a public health and civil rights law nonprofit, which is a medical-legal, community-driven initiative advocating for people experiencing poverty, particularly BIPOC individuals, in receiving the physical, mental, and gender-affirming health care that they deserve.