Category: 2023 Executive Scholars

Valerie Wilson LAW ’25 is a Law & Public Policy Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she also serves as a 1L representative of the American Constitution Society. Valerie graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 2018 with an A.B. in History and a certificate in Medieval Studies. She wrote her senior thesis on religious administrative responses to the Black Death. She then received an M.A. in 2019 from Columbia University in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, where she wrote her thesis on intertextualism in a manuscript of a 14th century English poem. 

Prior to law school, Valerie worked as an assistant media buyer and senior media coordinator at a media sales agency in New York. Valerie’s experience in the advertising industry, as well as living through a pandemic after studying the historical effects of another, sparked her interests in intellectual property law and its intersections with First Amendment issues. 

This summer, Valerie is interning at the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Valerie’s policy interests include digital media misinformation, First Amendment policy, and Section 230 issues. 

Abena Ampofo ’25 is a 2023 Law and Public Policy Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. At Temple, Abena has served as a 1L Representative for the Black Law Students Association and is a member of the Tax and Bankruptcy Law Society and Sports and Entertainment Law Society.  

Before attending Temple Law, Abena was an Operations Area Manager at Amazon, overseeing delivery operations and implementing lean processes. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2020 with a B.S. in Psychology and Africana Studies and minors in Sociology and Swahili.  

This summer, Abena will intern at the United States District Court in New Jersey as a Federal Magistrate Fellow, seeing firsthand how courts influence public policy. Her policy interests include tax, bankruptcy, patent law, data privacy and sustainability.