Juliana Peluso, LAW ’24, is a 2022 Executive Law and Public Policy Scholar and evening student at Temple University Beasley School of Law. She is a proud “Double Owl,” having graduated magna cum laude from Temple University with majors in political science and French. While earning her bachelor’s degree, Juliana volunteered with a number of organizations local to Philadelphia, including as a volunteer farmer at Greensgrow Urban Farm and leading a chess club at the After School Activities Partnerships. She is also a longtime patient escort at a reproductive health clinic.
Prior to attending law school, Juliana served in the Peace Corps as an Urban Agriculture Extension agent in northeast Senegal. Along with agricultural work, Juliana assisted with maternal and child health and nutrition initiatives. She fielded and monitored the use of grant funding for the construction of a Master Farm and created several recorded radio pieces in French and Pulaar for broadcast on local radio stations. Immediately afterwards, Juliana worked as an English Language Assistant at a middle and high school in Montpellier, southern France.
Juliana’s policy interests include emerging technologies, immigration, and human and reproductive rights, among others.