Category: 2022

Cara Costanzo, LAW ’24, is a Law and Public Policy Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Cara is an active member of the law school community, where she served as a 1L Representative for the Student Public Interest Network, as well as the Women’s Law Caucus.

Cara graduated from The Schreyer Honors College at The Pennsylvania State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management and Information Systems and a minor in Economics. Cara wrote her thesis on best practices for eradicating forced labor from the apparel supply chain. Prior to law school, Cara spent four years at KPMG LLP as a consultant in the Advisory Practice where she helped companies undergo business transformation initiatives.

As a Law and Public Policy Scholar, Cara will be interning with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Cara’s primary policy interests include voting rights, reproductive justice, and structural legislative reform.

Joseph Campbell, LAW ’24, is a 2022 Law and Public Policy Scholar and an evening student at Temple University Beasley School of Law. In addition to his law studies, Joe also Teaches Biology in the International Bachelorette Program at The Central High School of Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University in 2017 with a B.S. in Biology.

At Temple, Joe is a member of the Giles Rich Memorial Moot Court Team, which advanced to the national semifinals and won the award for the best brief. He represents his class as Vice President and is active in the Intellectual Property Law Society. Additionally, Joe worked with Professors Margolis and Levy as a Teaching Assistant and Professor Laura Little as a writing assistant.

As a Law and Public Policy Scholar, Joe is a summer law clerk for Schwartz & Ballen LLP. He is interested in Antitrust, Consumer Protection, and Intellectual Property Litigation.

Austin Kurtanich, LAW ’24, is a 2022 Law and Public Policy Scholar and Conwell Scholar at Temple Beasley School of Law. At Temple, he is active in the Student Public Interest Network and the Latin American Law Student Association. Austin graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 2020 with a B.A. in International Politics.

Before law school, Austin spent three years as a facilitator at World in Conversation (WinC), a center for public diplomacy associated with Penn State. At WinC, he worked with the global exchange program and led dialogues between Penn State students and global partners in Afghanistan, Palestine, Colombia, and Iraq. Prior to that, Austin was a summer research assistant for the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, a civil rights organization.

As a Law and Public Policy Scholar, Austin is working for the Nationalities Service Center with its Fund to Immigrant Justice (FIJ) initiative. The FIJ’s primary focus will be handling Afghan arrival cases. Austin has an interest in immigration law.

Asher Young LAW ’24 is a Law and Public Policy Scholar and Law Faculty Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Asher graduated from Wesleyan University in 2017 with a dual degree in Government and Hispanic Literatures and Cultures. At Temple Law, Asher serves on the executive board for the American Constitution Society and is an active member of Temple Law’s Student Public Interest Network.

Prior to law school, Asher spent four years working at Bennett Midland, a civic sector consulting firm in New York City that works exclusively with non-profits, government agencies, and philanthropic foundations. At Bennett Midland, Asher supported local and state government agencies on program design and policy analysis, including coordinating efforts across New York City’s criminal and juvenile justice systems to implement bail reform legislation and other juvenile justice reforms. He also worked with human services and health equity non-profits on their strategic planning efforts, focusing on operational analysis and impact measurement. Prior to working at Bennett Midland, Asher served as a research assistant for Professor Sonali Chakravarti at Wesleyan University, providing research and editing support for her most recent book about civic education and the American jury system.

As a 2022 Law and Public Policy Scholar, Asher will serve as a legal intern with the Administrative Conference of the United States. Asher’s policy interests include government agency operations and making public programs and resources more accessible to vulnerable communities.

Alyssa Kennedy, LAW ’24, is a 2022 Law & Public Scholar and Rubin-Presser Social Justice Fellow at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Alyssa is involved in the Community Service Committee of the Student Public Interest Network, a volunteer with Temple’s Name Change Project, a member of If/When/How: Lawyering Justice Clinic and the National Lawyers Guild, and co-founder of Temple’s Housing Justice Initiative.

Alyssa graduated magna cum laude as a Benjamin Franklin Scholar from the University of Pennsylvania in December 2016 with a B.A. in Health & Societies with a concentration in Health Policy & Law and double minor in Economic Policy and American Public Policy. In January 2017, Alyssa submatriculated into Penn’s Pearlman School of Medicine’s Master of Public Health (MPH) program.

While pursuing her MPH, Alyssa worked at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in the Infectious Disease Department managing the HIV Outpatient and Ryan White Program. In this position, she administered and assured compliance with the federal Ryan White Program, including quality improvement and access assessments. Alyssa also developed solutions to improve patient and clinical staff education and provided trainings to support optimal outcomes in light of patients’ care coverage and support systems. Additionally, she advocated for changes to treatment algorithms to include considerations of patient’s social and economic factors.

Alyssa continues to engage with the Philadelphia community through extensive volunteer work with public health-oriented non-profit and mutual aid organizations. Through these experiences, Alyssa learned about the failures of existing social and legislative policies. These are not theoretical or academic learnings, but tangible, often stark realizations about the desperate need for focused and informed public and private solutions necessary to achieve health equity and restorative justice. As a Law & Public Policy Scholar, Alyssa is working as a legal intern at the Department of Health & Human Services in the Office of General Counsel. Upon graduating from Temple, she is excited to apply her new legal skills championing and advocating for equitable public health policy