Class of 2029/30

Liam Kelly (he/him) comes to Temple as a day division student after teaching English at Jules E. Mastbaum Area Vocational/Technical School. While there, he joined the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and was elected to represent his coworkers on the school-level union building committee. Prior to teaching, Liam worked as a union organizer for SEIU in Colorado and for UNITE HERE, where he participated in a unionization drive for restaurant workers at the Denver airport. He is a 2019 graduate of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. 

Liam’s primary focus at Temple Law is labor law. More broadly, he is interested in workers’ rights, economic democracy, and the many ways that workplace and economic rights intersect with other social issues. 

Liam’s professional aspirations are to work as a labor law attorney, ideally for a union-side firm or in-house at a union. He hopes to be involved in creative legal strategies for challenges in organizing new unions and negotiating contracts that pursue transformative demands and ultimately in labor law reform, with the goal of re-balancing the scales of labor law for workers.

Sophia Ma (she/her) joins Temple Law in the day division after working as a legal assistant at Ellis Porter, an immigration law firm focused primarily on employment-based Green Cards and work visas. In 2025, she graduated from Vassar College with a double major in Chinese and Philosophy. She first became drawn to immigration law during her junior year of college, when she took a course on international refugee law while studying abroad in Copenhagen. Meeting with individuals seeking asylum in Denmark and Greece as part of her coursework was deeply influential, and hearing their stories as well as their experiences as refugees solidified her resolve to pursue a career that would help individuals fight for their right to a better life. The following summer, Sophia also participated in an on-site ethnography program in Malaysia. Examining the critical issues facing migrant and refugee communities there further strengthened her desire to work with migrant groups. Throughout her time at Vassar College, she additionally was an active member and president of Vassar Refugee Solidarity.  

Sophia’s primary area of interest is immigration law, and she is excited to explore international human rights law and asylum law at Temple. In her legal career, she hopes to serve the immigrant community through representation and advocacy for a more equitable immigration system.

Aurora Trainor (she/her) is a 2020 Temple University graduate with a B.S. in Public Health and a certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). She is currently enrolled in Temple Law’s evening division. 

After working for a year at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH) responding to the COVID pandemic, Aurora enrolled in the MPH program at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, where she also earned a certificate in health policy analysis. While in graduate school, she interned with the in-house science team at the New York State Office of the Attorney General in the Environmental Protection Bureau, which solidified her interest in environmental and health law. After graduating with her MPH in 2023, Aurora returned to Philadelphia and the Health Department, where she currently works as PDPH’s first Environmental Justice Manager. 

As a Temple Law student, Aurora is focused on Environmental Health/Justice, Healthcare, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Workers’ Rights. She is interested in career pathways involving legislative advocacy and legal epidemiology, but open to possibilities that will enable her to maximize her impact.

Hannah Welsh (they/them or she/her) comes to Temple Law as a day division student after studying Business, Spanish, and Latin American Studies at Creighton University. Following their undergraduate education, Hannah joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and was placed with Casa Marianella in Austin, Texas. There, they worked on a team dedicated to preparing and mailing sponsorship paperwork to detained immigrants, and managed the organization’s public benefits clinic. After Casa Marianella, Hannah worked at The Other Ones Foundation as a landlord outreach specialist, advocating for clients facing homelessness to gain access to housing. This work led them to Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, where they represented tenants facing housing subsidy termination and eviction.  

Hannah is interested in all legal issues related to poverty. Currently, her attention is being held most by issues involving housing, employment, public benefits, and immigration work because every person needs access to safety, food, medical care, and freedom from incarceration, and the issues are interconnected. 

While she is open to returning to civil legal aid after earning her JD, Hannah anticipates exploring a range of opportunities and listening to learn where she is needed most.

Serenity Your (she/her) joins Temple Law in the day division after earning her Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies and African American Studies from the University of California Berkeley. Her commitment to public service predates her undergraduate education, beginning with volunteer work at her former elementary school as a high school student. As a first-generation college student at Cosumnes River College (“CRC”), she volunteered with the “Umoja Diop Scholars”, a program centered on helping first-generation students of African descent succeed at CRC. In 2022, while at UC Berkeley, Serenity worked with Root & Rebound, a nonprofit aimed at helping formerly incarcerated individuals re-enter society. 

Serenity’s focus in law school is to assist those whose educational and economic disadvantages make them vulnerable to exploitation in the health care system. This focus has been heavily influenced by her mother’s advocacy as a mental health technician for the patients in her care. 

Serenity hopes to begin her legal career in the health care industry working on nursing facility compliance.