Isabelle Aubrun is a 2021 Law and Public Scholar and a Rubin-Presser Social Justice Fellow. She serves as the Co-President of Temple’s chapter of If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice and on the Outlaw Executive Board. Isabelle graduated from Brown University magna cum laude in 2016, where she studied environmental and social public policy.
Prior to attending law school, Isabelle supervised New York City high schoolers in the Summer Youth Employment Program registering Latino voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election. She then worked for three years as a multilingual legal services case manager at Philadelphia VIP, where she helped close the vast civil justice gap by ensuring low-income Philadelphians in crisis were represented by pro bono counsel in the areas of housing, family, and income stabilization. There, she also conducted in-court intake and facilitated legal representation for borrowers in Philadelphia’s Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program and coordinated VIP’s Language Access Program. Most recently, Isabelle worked as an English Language Assistant for the academic school year at a middle school in the north of France.
As a Law and Public Policy Scholar, Isabelle is working as a legal intern with the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice in the Federal Coordination and Compliance Section. She is committed to creating systems-level change by ensuring dignity and access for those too often denied it, with a current focus on LGBTQ+ rights and reproductive justice.