Larissa Truchan

Larissa grew up in a small suburb in North Jersey and graduated from Boston College in 2021, where she majored in Sociology and minored in Philosophy. After using her spare time during Covid-19 quarantine to self-study for the LSAT, Larissa scored a 174 and was accepted to Harvard Law School’s Junior Deferral Program, with the intention of pursuing international human rights law. While completing her undergraduate degree, Larissa gained experience teaching students of a wide range of different backgrounds, including tutoring incarcerated people for their GED at a correctional facility, raising awareness as co-lead in her school's anti-racist activism club, and serving as a volunteer teaching assistant at an elementary school in Jamaica. Larissa is currently spending her gap years before law school living, studying, and interning in different geopolitical areas of the world. Since graduating, Larissa has studied humanitarianism and engaged with Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Amman, Jordan; facilitated the development of a public interest litigation case on citizenship for long-term refugees in Nairobi, Kenya; observed the unfolding of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York, USA; and influenced the revision of women’s rights legislation in Tokyo, Japan. In her free time, you can find Larissa snapping pictures and videos for her blog, trying new coffee shops, and figuring out where her next adventure will be.