Paul Loriston LAW ’22 is a Law & Public Policy Scholar, a Beasley Scholar, and a Weisman Fellow at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. He graduated from New College of Florida in 2018, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and conducted research examining racial enrollment disparities at his alma mater. As an undergraduate he served as student body president, founder and president of the Black Student Union, and was a part of the Black History Month planning committee leadership team. Aside from his on-campus activities, Mr. Loriston mentored at-risk minority children and volunteered his time mentoring incoming black undergraduates.
This summer Mr. Loriston is working as an intern for Sandy Hook Promise, an above-the-politics organization that supports sensible program and policy solutions to gun control reform. He is passionate about civil rights, equal opportunity, and equal justice.