The Scholars

Janice Arellano

Janice Arellano ’14 is a student at Temple University Beasley School of Law. While in law school, Ms. Arellano has worked as an ABA Section of Litigation judicial intern and Marutani Fellow for the Honorable Norma L. Shapiro and the Honorable M. Faith Angell of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Ms. Arellano has been a teaching assistant for the Legal Research and Writing Program and has served on the boards of the School Discipline Advocacy Service and Latino Law Students Association. Her law and policy interests include civil litigation, employment/labor, consumer protection, media, and citizenship.

Prior to law school, Ms. Arellano worked in public education through Teach for America in Philadelphia. She was a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) Public Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division-Voting Section and the National Education Association. Ms. Arellano earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College and a Masters in Education from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. As a Law & Public Policy Scholar, Ms. Arellano worked for the Federal Trade Commission, Division of Marketing Practices.