Edmund Nyarko LAW ’23 is a 2021 Law and Public Policy Scholar and Weisman Family Fellow at Temple University Beasley School of Law. At Temple, he is active in the Student Public Interest Network and the National Lawyers Guild. Edmund is also the Vice President of the Black Law Students Association. He graduated from Xavier University in 2017 with a B.S. in Biology.
Before law school, Edmund spent two years as a research assistant at the University of Chicago, where he worked on projects focused on health inequities among racial and socioeconomic population groups in Chicago. Prior to that, he was a summer teaching fellow at Breakthrough Cincinnati, a nonprofit education program.
As a Law and Public Policy Scholar, Edmund is working for the Employment Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He has an interest in civil rights litigation.