Jocelyn Mosman

Jocelyn Mosman is 25 years old and originally from Odessa, Texas. She attended Rutgers Law School in her first year before transferring to Boston University School of Law where she is now pursuing a career in international and immigration law. She also attends Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas as an LL.M. candidate in European Law. Her passion is international and European law, as well as both asylum and business immigration law. She recently worked at American Friends Service Committee in the Immigrant Rights Program as a summer legal intern and volunteers for the BU Student Chapter of the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP). Her policy brief on DACA legislation was recently cited in the amicus brief for New Jersey in Texas v. United States. Jocelyn also served a summer law clerk at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy. 

 

 

Jocelyn received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, where she graduated summa cum laude. She double majored in English and Politics. She is the author of three volumes of poetry: Soul Music (2013), Soul Painting (2014), and Soul Meets Body (2015). She is the recipient of the Clio Melpomene Excellence in English Award, the Donald G. Morgan Fellowship in Law, was named the 2017 Baccalaureate Poet and the 2016 Poet of the Year, received the 2015 Gertrude Claytor Award from the Academy of American Poets, and was a member of the 2015 Northampton Poetry Slam team at the National Poetry Slam. 

 

Jocelyn has spoken and performed across Texas, New Jersey, California, Massachusetts, New York, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland.