Emily Harris, LAW ’24, is a 2022 Law & Public Policy Scholar and a Beasley Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. She graduated from Saint Louis University with a B.A. in Classical Humanities and a minor in Latin.
Prior to law school, Emily worked as a mathematics teacher at a Title I middle school in Atlanta, GA. She taught English Language Learner students, many of whom were refugees and recent immigrants from all around the world. After school, she volunteered with the mathematics enrichment program to assist students who required supplemental instruction. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Emily pivoted to working one-on-one with students in remote learning environments to ensure their academic success.
During law school, Emily has volunteered with the Temple Law Name Change Project, providing legal name change services to low-income, transgender clients in Philadelphia. She served as the Social Media and Marketing chair for the Student Public Interest Network and was also a 1L representative for the Women’s Law Caucus.
For summer 2022, Emily is interning as a McLeary Law Fellow with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) legal department. Her policy interests include the intersection of K-12 public school education and LGBTQ+ rights.