Category: 2022

Marianne Uy LAW ‘24 is a 2022 Law & Public Policy Scholar and Beasley Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. At Temple, Marianne is involved with the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA) and will serve as a Student Attorney for The Sheller Center for Social Justice – Social Justice Lawyering Clinic.

Marianne is a graduate of Cornell University, where she studied Industrial and Labor Relations and Business. At Cornell, Marianne developed an interest in labor and employment law. This interest deepened at CooperVision and Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC, where Marianne managed human resource and compliance policies, led the summer internship programs, and oversaw client communications.

This summer, Marianne has the privilege of interning for the National Labor Relations Board – Office of the Executive Secretary. She looks forward to further exploring her policy interests in labor and employment, and immigration.

Adamari Rodriguez LAW ’24 is a 2022 Law & Public Policy Scholar. Originally from Millsboro, Delaware, Adamari is a 2021 graduate of the University of Delaware with a degree in International Relations and a concentration in Latin American Development.

At Temple, Adamari has been involved in First Generation Owls and the Latin American Law Student Association (LALSA).

Prior to attending Temple Law, Adamari interned at the Biden Institute School of Public Policy and Administration in Newark, DE where she aided in conducting research and coordinating events to enhance civic discourse for University of Delaware students. Adamari was also President of her sorority Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. as well as Vice President of Dark Arts Performing Dance Company. In the Winter of 2020, Adamari studied abroad in Argentina where she took political science courses about Argentinean history and culture.

During the Law and Public Policy Summer Program, Adamari will be exploring the history of immigration amnesty initiatives. This summer Adamari is interning at Palladino, Isbell, Casazza LLC, an immigration firm in Philadelphia that provides universal representation on various immigration issues from marriage, adjustment of status, naturalization, and removal proceedings.

Madeline Schonberger, LAW ’24, is a 2022 Law and Public Policy Scholar and a Beasley Scholar at the Temple University Beasley School of Law. At Temple, she is an active member of the Jewish Law Student’s Association and Women’s Law Caucus. Madeline graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and Sciences summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science, Philosophy and Economics.

Prior to law school Madeline spent two years in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). There, Madeline served in the Israeli Air Force’s aerial defense unit as an interceptor at the patriot missile. After her release, she cofounded a sock company with a give-back initiative to support lone soldiers of the IDF.

As a Law and Public Policy Scholar, Madeline will be interning with in the Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Appellate Court. Her policy interests include general data privacy, cyber security law, international trade, and the nexus between immigration and privacy law.

Lucas Masin-Moyer, LAW ’24, is a 2022 Law & Public Policy Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Lucas graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 2019 with a B.A. in American Studies and Political Science. At Notre Dame, Lucas was the Assistant Managing Editor of The Observer and worked with Project HOME in Philadelphia as a participant in the University’s Summer Service Learning Program.

Lucas further earned his M.Ed. from Notre Dame in 2021 while teaching 5th and 6th grade Language Arts, Social Studies and Religion in Minnesota as part of the ACE Teaching Fellows program. During his time as a teaching fellow, Lucas also served as basketball coach and completed a capstone project on how to create effective classroom communities in multilingual classrooms.

At Temple Law, Lucas serves as a 1L rep for the FirstGen Law Owls and has participated in the National Lawyers Guild’s expungement clinic.

This summer, Lucas will be working for Internet2, a non-profit organization geared at providing technology solutions to government entities, higher education, and research institutions. His policy interests include educational equity, access to bi-lingual education, and international treaty-making.

Carson Taylor, LAW ’24, is a 2022 Law & Public Policy Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Carson Graduated from the University of Kansas in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science. While at Kansas, Carson acted as the secretary of the Legal Education Acceleration Program and presented his thesis on the global ramifications of South Africa’s voluntary denuclearization in the early 1990s to the Kansas Historical Society.

Prior to attending Temple Law, Carson worked with The Borgen Project to lobby Congress to increase the foreign aid budget. There, he promoted humanitarian intervention into underdeveloped regions of the globe by persuading representatives to sponsor bills to financially assist education, healthcare, and peacebuilding international organizations.

After completion of this internship, Carson spent a year working for Keystone Human Services to provide individualized legal and medical advocacy for minors who reside in group homes in central Connecticut. In this position, Carson acted as a shift manager who planned educational and entertaining outings to create a sense of normalcy in their lives during the most isolating periods of the COVID-19 pandemic. Carson’s pursuit of a JD arises from the combination of his interests in assisting disadvantaged populations, child welfare, human rights, and national security.

For the summer of 2022, Carson will be interning at the National Association of Council for Children to assist in research on child welfare.

Hanna Pfeiffer, LAW ’24, is a Law & Public Policy Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she is a student representative for National Lawyers Guild and the Student Public Interest Network. Hanna graduated with honors from the University of Chicago with a major in Public Policy Studies. Her honors thesis, “Bail Reform in Chicago: Using Novel Data to Evaluate General Order 18.8A” focused on evaluating a new bail reform policy in Chicago, Illinois.

Prior to attending law school, Hanna worked on the trade floor at BP, first as a maritime analyst tracking crude oil flows, and next as a low-carbon analyst, calculating supply and demand for three different kinds of carbon credits. Hanna is passionate about reducing global carbon emissions via system-wide policy and closing loopholes in existing carbon policy regulation.

Hanna is also passionate about decarceration. During her undergraduate studies, Hanna interned at the Public Defender’s office in LaGrange, Kentucky, where she investigated cases, met with clients in court and in jail, and reviewed text and call logs. She was also a trained court-watcher. She attended bail hearings in Chicago to record whether judges were considering a defendant’s ability to pay when assessing bail. In addition, she interned at the Illinois Justice Project, a nonprofit that advocates for criminal justice reform efforts and reduce recidivism. While there, she contributed to an Illinois Task Force Report on sex offenses and sex offender policy.

As a Law and Public Policy Scholar, Hanna is interning at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division. Aviation, Space, & Admiralty Litigation Section in Washington, D.C. She is eager to learn more about the intersection of aviation, admiralty, and climate policy.

Aamy Kuldip LAW ’24 is a Law and Public Policy Scholar and Conwell Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Aamy graduated with a Bachelors of Arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At Temple, she is actively involved in the South Asian Law Student Association and the If/When/How Lawyering for Reproductive Justice organizations.

Prior to law school, Aamy worked with the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NCCASA). At NCCASA, Aamy assisted in researching abusive litigation and anti-human trafficking policies. She also worked to advance efforts to promote paid sick leave and paid maternity leave policies in the state.

This summer, Aamy is interning with the International Association of Women Judges, a non-profit organization working to advance international human rights and equality. Her policy interest lies within human/victim rights, sexual exploitation, and criminal justice reform.

Livia Luan, LAW ’23, is a 2022 Law and Public Policy Scholar and a Rubin-Presser Social Justice Fellow at Temple University Beasley School of Law. During law school, Livia has interned for the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, and has worked as a student attorney in the Social Justice Lawyering Clinic. As a second-year law student, Livia served as a co-president of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association and a staff editor for the Temple International and Comparative Law Journal. She is also the Managing Editor and Diversity Editor for the next volume of the journal.

Prior to law school, Livia worked as a programs associate and executive assistant at Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, where she advocated for humane immigration policies and equitable technology and telecommunications policies. She received a B.A. in Government from Georgetown University in 2018.

This summer, Livia will be a summer associate at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law. Her policy interests include immigrants’ rights, workers’ rights, First Amendment rights, and education justice.

Kemberly Viveros, LAW ’24, is a 2022 Law and Public Scholar and Conwell Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. At Temple Law, she is active in the Student Public Interest Network and the National Lawyers Guild.

Kemberly graduated magna cum laude from George Mason University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology, Law, and Society, and a minor in Forensic Psychology. She spent a semester interning at the Criminal Justice Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center where she worked closely with attorneys in all aspects of pre-trial preparation to provide persons charged with criminal offenses access to legal services.

This summer, Kemberly is interning with the Institute of Law, Innovation, and Technology, a newly founded institute advocating for more effective regulations regarding emerging technologies and their impact on human rights. Her policy interests lie within the intersection of racial justice and technology.

Joan Fernandez is a Law and Public Policy Scholar and a Rubin-Presser Social Justice Fellow at Temple University Beasley School of Law. A first-generation and low-income Dominican immigrant, he has always taken a profound interest in his clients’ legal battles.

Before law school, Joan served as a Community Fellow with the Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC), the nation’s first immigration legal fellowship program. The late Honorable Robert A. Katzmann, Former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, created IJC to recruit, train, and populate the immigration field with the highest quality legal advocates. As an IJC fellow, Joan helped spearhead the program’s expansion into Long Island, New York, a region with one of the highest rates of unaccompanied child resettlement nationwide. It also has a corresponding unmet need for direct legal services. Joan then served as a U.S. Department of Justice Fully Accredited Representative with Central American Legal Assistance (CALA), a New York City-based nonprofit organization that provides low-cost and free legal services to asylum seekers. As a Fully Accredited Representative, Joan helped hundreds of asylees obtain permanent residence and reunite with their loved ones after prolonged and forced family separation. In doing so, he helped his clients collectively save about half a million dollars in prohibitively expensive immigration filing fees. He also directly represented asylum seekers in removal proceedings before the New York City Immigration Courts.

Joan graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in History and a Certificate in the Program of Latin American Studies. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

This summer, Joan will be interning with the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NIPNLG), a national nonprofit organization that for fifty years has served as a progressive source of advocacy-oriented legal support on issues critical to immigrants’ rights. He will help NIPNLG provide technical assistance and support to community-based immigrant organizations, legal practitioners, and all advocates seeking and working to advance the rights of noncitizens. Joan hopes to sharpen his legal advocacy skills and to use them to inform humane immigration policy change efforts.