Law School
Boston College Law School

Undergraduate School
Stony Brook University

Fellowship
Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office

Julia Brandenstein is a 1L at Boston College Law School. She holds a BS and BA, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and an MA in Public Policy from Stony Brook University. In addition, she earned a certificate in Leadership Principles from Harvard Business School. During her time at Stony Brook, she worked as the student coordinator for the Center for Civic Justice where she registered thousands of college students to vote and became the 2022 national winner of the Up to Us Campus Competition. Brandenstein’s thesis research on the automation of the federal redistricting process was presented and received several awards at the International Forum for Research Excellence and the Northeastern Political Science Association Conferences. As a graduate student, she was a Public Policy Research Fellow for the Alliance for Citizen Engagement and a Civic Engagement Fellow for Up to Us. Brandenstein is honored to have been selected as a Rappaport Fellow in Law and Public Policy. She will spend her Rappaport summer as an intern at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.