Laura Zhang
"I'm excited to learn along with fellow students at the Justice Center who are just as passionate about public interest work as I am. It's a very secure feeling knowing that even though I'm coming into a whole new chapter of my life, there will be Justice Center peers, faculty, and staff who will support and encourage me along the way and provide a 'home' to come back to during this journey."
Laura Zhang is a Volume 104 Articles Editor for Texas Law Review and an admissions ambassador for the Texas Law admissions office. Laura has also participated in the Supreme Court Litigation and Employment Rights Clinics, and she will be interning with Judge Ezra in the United States District Court of the Western District of Texas next spring.
Zhang has also served as a Dean’s Fellow, outreach coordinator for the Texas Health Law Society, and team lead for the Mithoff Pro Bono Program's Title IX Project. In her 1L summer, Laura worked in the Civil Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., focusing on healthcare fraud cases. She also worked on the Medicaid and Public Benefits teams at the Legal Aid of North Carolina in Greensboro, North Carolina. During her 2L summer, she worked in the white-collar defense and investigations practice at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York City and then worked in Fort Worth, Texas at the Texas A&M Institute for Healthcare Access.
Laura graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 2018 with degrees in Plan II Honors and Neuroscience and a certificate in Art History. After graduating from college, she worked in Dallas and Washington, D.C. as a health strategy consultant for Accenture. In that role, she collaborated with the nation’s largest healthcare payers and providers to advance their growth and equity initiatives. Some of her experience includes analyzing financial and public data to assess market growth, conducting due diligence, and driving awareness of the impact of race and racism on healthcare access.
Zhang is passionate about health equity and social determinants of health, particularly at the intersections of housing, reproductive health, and the carceral system. She is planning to work in trial and appellate litigation after graduation.