Nicholas Elia ’18 is a Beasley Scholar and a 2016 Law & Public Policy Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Mr. Elia earned B.S. degrees in finance and economics at Penn State. Before starting at Temple Law, he worked as a financial analyst for Exelis, a defense contractor in Herndon, VA. He also worked as a finance intern on Paul Zukerberg’s 2014 Washington, D.C. Attorney General campaign. As a Law & Public Policy Scholar, Mr. Elia is interning with the Federal Labor Relations Authority in the Office of the Chairman, performing research for Authority decisions in federal labor disputes. Throughout law school, he plans to also study tax policy, administrative law, international trade, and corporate law. Mr. Elia’s policy paper is focusing on the lack of access to basic goods and services—such as grocery stores, voter identification, and banking—in low income communities.
