Emily Erwin ’22 is a 2020 Law & Public Policy Scholar, Beasley Scholar, and Weisman Family Fellow at Temple University Beasley School of Law.
Emily graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. As an undergraduate student, she studied social movements in East Asia at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. As a student athlete, she competed in the Big Ten conference, and advocated for policy changes in Rutgers’ athletics department.
After graduating, Emily interned in a criminal defense law office where she observed deficiencies in the state criminal justice system. Wanting to serve the public, Emily began working as a records clerk in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. There she fostered her interests in criminal justice and civil service, but realized she wanted to advocate for the public. At Temple she has volunteered for the Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project’s Reentry Workshop and will be participating in the Access to Justice Clinic in the Fall 2020.
As a Law & Public Policy Scholar, Emily is working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Her policy interests include ghost gun regulation and inhibiting violent extremism during and after Covid-19.