Ramon Suarez is a 2023 Law and Public Policy Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he is a 1L Secretary of the Latin American Law Student Association (LALSA), Temple Law Chapter. Ramon graduated with honors from The College of New Jersey in 2002, where he studied History and received his Masters of Philosophy from New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences as a Warren Dean Fellow in the History Department.
Prior to attending law school, Ramon worked as an adjunct college professor at Rutgers University while conducting research on his doctoral dissertation examining the sociopolitical role of the U.S. military in twentieth century Puerto Rico. He later worked as a legal assistant in his hometown of Perth Amboy, NJ at a family and real estate law firm. Once Covid-19 afflicted his township Ramon initiated a social experiment in grassroots community legal work as a volunteer library paralegal in Perth Amboy Public Library, helping essential workers fill out online pro se forms at a time when New Jersey Legal Services offices were still closed to the public.
As a Temple Law student, Ramon is pursuing a career in employment and labor advocacy. He will be interning this summer at Wawa Headquarters’ Employment and Litigation office. As a Law and Public Policy Scholar, his current focus is on politically and legally empowering minority working-class communities, identifying the disparate policy impacts that lack of guaranteed federal paid family and medical leave protections in the United States have upon working-class women of color.