Maya Patel LAW ’24 is a 2023 Law & Public Policy Scholar and Conwell Scholar at Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law.
Originally from New Jersey, Maya became a licensed Emergency Medical Technician during high school. She later got her vehicle extrication training, volunteered on the ambulance through the COVID-19 pandemic and maintains her licensure.
Maya graduated cum laude from Rutgers University New Brunswick in 2021 with a B.A. in Philosophy and minors in Cognitive Science and Spanish, winning the Douglas W.J. Norton Alumnae Prize in Philosophy. Maya facilitated alternative break trips learning about systemic relationships among social justice issues such as hunger, homelessness, privilege, and power in our nation’s capital, stigmas around HIV/AIDs, and addiction recovery amongst veterans. Maya worked as a 9-1-1 dispatcher throughout her undergraduate studies, communicating live with emergency services. She also spent a semester clerking for a solo attorney’s boutique law firm.
While at Temple, Maya participated in the Integrated Trial Advocacy Program, the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, a compliance practicum with the Temple University Health System’s Legal Department, and a practicum with the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Law Division. She is actively involved in leadership with both the Women’s Law Caucus and the South Asian Law Students Association.
Last summer Maya clerked for a worker’s compensation firm and this summer she will be a Certified Legal Intern at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Trial Division.