Leah Moradi

Leah Moradi is a driven and motivated Philosophy and Political Science student with a love for academics and a passion for advocacy in healthcare, specifically women's health and reproductive policy, and civic engagement.

Leah Moradi is a junior at Tufts University double majoring in Philosophy and Political Science, where her coursework has centered on political theory, ethics, health policy, and the relationship between democratic institutions and the people they serve. Her academic work spans quantitative political science research, ethical and metaphisycal thought, and policy writing, and she has developed a particular interest in how legislative systems either expand or foreclose access to care. Her policy writing on step therapy reform in Massachusetts, submitted to the Youth in Policy competition, grew directly out of her academic engagement with health policy and her own experience as a Crohn's disease patient navigating insurance barriers. Off campus, Leah is currently interning at the Massachusetts State House and enjoys reading, yoga, and drawing.

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IBD Patients Can’t Wait and Neither Should Lawmakers

Op-Ed Contest Spring 2026

Leah Moradi

For patients with IBD, the systems meant to support them move at the pace of paperwork, not the pace of illness, and a practice called step therapy makes that gap measurable in months of preventable harm. Massachusetts has baseline protections, but no enforceable timelines and no standardized criteria, leaving patients without recourse while more than 30 other states have already done better. Reform is specific, proven, and ready, and it only moves when lawmakers hear from the people living with the consequences.

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