Sherlyn Martinez, LAW ’24, is a Law and Public Policy Scholar and Rubin Presser Fellow at Temple Beasley School of Law. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 2016 with a double major in Philosophy (Justice, Law and Value) and Political Science and a double minor in History and Ethics.
Sherlyn works full time at Community Legal Services as a paralegal for the Employment Unit. At CLS, she focuses on community education and outreach, coordinating expungement clinics with community organizations and politicians across Philadelphia. She also performs employment related casework like wage theft and employee discrimination.
At Temple, Sherlyn has served as co-president of the National Lawyers’ Guild Expungement Clinic and the Student Week for Mass Incarceration co-chair. Additionally, she served as the Student Bar Association Senate vice-president for her cohort, as well as the Mentor and Public Relation and Marketing Chair for the Night Owls.
This summer, Sherlyn will be interning in the Low-Income Tax Clinic at Temple to pursue her interest in tax policy.