Nikki Hatza ’20 is a Law & Public Policy Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she serves as Co-President of the Student Public Interest Network (SPIN), Vice President of Temple Outlaw, a student coordinator of the Name Change Project, and a volunteer for the Expungement Clinic.
Prior to law school, Nikki cultivated her facilitation skills as an educator and community organizer in diverse settings, including the Navajo Nation, Spain, and Philadelphia, PA. After serving as a Spanish and U.S. Government teacher with Teach for America, Nikki spent two years as a Fulbright Grantee in Spain where she developed the University of Cantabria’s first gender and sexuality course and organized charitable productions of The Vagina Monologues to help end violence against women. Thereafter, Nikki developed and facilitated LGBTQ+ diversity and inclusion workshops for thousands of professionals across industries as the Professional Development Manager of an LGBTQ non-profit organization in Philadelphia.
Nikki holds B.A. degrees in Women’s Studies, Spanish, and International Studies from the Pennsylvania State University’s Schreyer Honors College, where she graduated as Student Marshal of the College of Liberal Arts. As an undergraduate student, she studied abroad in Ecuador, where she lived and volunteered in a Quechua community near Quito.
While in Washington, Nikki is working as a legal intern with the Employment Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, exploring her intersecting policy interests in Civil Rights, LGBTQ Rights, and Racial Justice.