Lydia Prislovsky

Lydia Prislovsky is a rising 3L at Tulane Law School. She attended Texas A&M University where she was an active student leader in Phi Alpha Theta, the Corps of Cadets, the Memorial Student Center, and competed with the university’s Crew Team (Rowing). She became interested in women and gender issues in the law while working on her senior thesis “’Beloved Woman’: The Native Female’s Battle for Identity during the Progressive Era’” which was selected as winner of the Department of History’s annual essay competition. The summer before graduating with her BA in History, she became more familiar with the issues that many veterans face while working in an interdisciplinary research project documenting the military service histories of alumni.

During law school, Lydia has worked as a law clerk with Gasparian Spivey Immigration and externed with the Office of the City Attorney in New Orleans. Her recent case note, “Antonio v. Garland: Considering Imputed Sexual Orientation as a Particular Social Group in Asylum Determinations” will be published in Volume 33 of the Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality. She hopes to pursue a public interest career, representing those with a lack of traditional access to justice.