Indira Rahman (they/them) LAW ’25 is a Law & Public Policy Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. They graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 2018 with a B.A. in Astrophysics and Government.
Prior to law school, Indira was the full-time lead researcher and senior project manager at the Franklin & Marshall Global Barometers, the world’s first centralized quantitative index on LGBTQ+ human rights in 204 countries and regions. The $1.5 million federal project was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and global partners such as the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and Global Affairs Canada (GAC). Indira had the privilege of recruiting and engaging with more than 50 LGBTQ+ peer review experts—including grassroots activists, scholars, and policy professionals—from over 40 countries. They are also a co-contributor to the LGBTQI Human Rights Report Card for 110 countries, which were featured in the 2021 White House Summit for Democracy. Indira’s work on the first global landscape study on transgender rights was published in the Journal of Human Rights.
A nonbinary queer asylum-seeker from Bangladesh, Indira came to law school to end the criminalization of LGBTQ+ people worldwide. At Temple Law, they are involved in various student leadership positions as the incoming President of OUTLaw and the Vice President of American Constitution Society and International Law Society.
As a 2023 Law & Public Policy Scholar, Indira will be interning at the World Bank this summer in Washington, DC on a short-term appointment. They will be working in the Middle East and North Africa Practice Group (LEGAM) under the Bank’s Legal Vice Presidency. Additionally, they will be writing a policy paper featuring South Asian LGBTQ+ asylum seekers on the link between project funding, legal access, and inclusion. Indira’s policy interests include global migration, LGBTQ+ human rights, and inclusive international development.