Daniela Rakhlina-Powsner LAW ’22 is a 2020 Law and Public Policy Scholar and a Beasley Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience and Behavior with a minor in Russian literature and Culture and a certificate in Culture, Health, and Science.
Prior to law school Ms. Rakhlina-Powsner interned for the Jerusalem Institute of Justice in Israel in the International Law and Diplomacy Department, where she assisted in research regarding Israeli foreign affairs as well as editing of communications to the ICC regarding War Crimes committed against Palestinian citizens. She also volunteered at events for Holocaust survivors. Prior to that she volunteered for the CARE center, a school for pregnant teens and young mothers in Holyoke, MA as a math and science tutor. At Temple she serves as Vice President of the Health Law Society and Secretary for the American Constitution Society.
This summer she is working as a legal fellow at the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), a nonprofit organization that advocates for international sexual and reproductive health and rights as well as doing research for Temple Professor Duncan Hollis regarding international law norms surrounding cybercrimes particularly pertaining to attacks against the healthcare sector. Her primary policy interests are environmental preservation, healthcare accessibility and equality, and voting rights.