Lars Mackenzie is a doctoral candidate in Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. He earned a Master’s degree in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College. His research examines the associations between fraud and gender non-conformity, analyzing how trans subjects’ incompatibility with information systems, laws, and social epistemologies about sex and gender produce their marginalization. Mackenzie has been awarded the Informatics Institute “Critical Data Studies: Where is the Human in the Data?” Fellowship, Susan Geiger Fellowship, Gender Policy Report Fellowship, and a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for this research. His work has been published in Transgender Studies Quarterly. Mackenzie’s broader research and teaching interests include critical data studies, surveillance, social movements, media and culture, law, health, science studies, and digital humanities.