• Royce Fellowship
Molly
Christiansen

Concentration 

Public Health

Award Year 

1999

Molly will go to Oaxaca, Mexico, to help a rural community address its sanitation needs by building low-cost composting toilets. She will work with the village and a local nongovernmental organization to develop the project.

Molly is the Director of Research and Development at Living Goods a non-profit organization that empowers networks of 'Avon-like' women entrepreneurs who earn an income going door-to-door selling a wide range of life-saving and life-changing products at prices affordable for people living in poverty in East Africa. Molly leads its health practices, product development, monitoring and evaluation, and new market expansion. She brings over ten years of experience in public health, international development, and social enterprise to her work at Living Goods, including stints at Acumen Fund, Vision Spring, and Hindustan Unilever Limited. She earned an MBA and MPH from the University of Michigan where she focused on market-based solutions for poverty alleviation and global health.