Achsah Dorsey is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UNC. She recently returned from extended dissertation fieldwork collecting biomarkers and conducting semi-structured interviews in Lima, Peru in order to examine the relationship between biological, environmental, and social factors contributing to iron deficiency in children. Prior to coming to UNC, she completed her master's degree at the University of Alabama, where she wrote her thesis based on data she collected in Mwanza, Tanzania.