Law Clerk / Summer Extern
Termechi Employment Law
Working under supervising attorney Cody Cooper on plaintiff-side employment litigation.
About
I’m a J.D. candidate at Southwestern Law School, concentrating in entertainment law. My path here wasn’t a straight line — I have a B.A. from Reed College, where my thesis used quantitative methods to study a Latin American policy crisis, and an M.A. from Georgetown, where I wrote a policy memo on generative AI and fair use doctrine and a separate research piece on streaming consolidation in the creator economy.
That policy background is part of why I care about entertainment law specifically: the questions I find most interesting — who owns a performance, a likeness, a style, a piece of creative labor — sit right at the boundary of law, technology, and industry economics.
At Southwestern, I serve on the boards of the Entertainment Law Society and the Music Law Society, and I’m the Networking Chair for LACBA’s Entertainment Law and IP Section (ELIPS). I’m also a research assistant working on right of publicity and generative AI.
Before law school, I worked in event and volunteer management for the DC/DOX Documentary Film Festival and in data/business analysis at Omnicom Media Group.
Experience
Research Assistant
Right of Publicity & Generative AI
Ongoing research examining how right of publicity doctrine applies to AI-generated likenesses and performances.
Event & Volunteer Management
DC/DOX Documentary Film Festival
Coordinated festival operations and volunteer teams for a documentary film festival.
Data/Business Analyst
Omnicom Media Group
Business and data analysis work within a media holding company.
Writing & Research
Generative AI and Fair Use Doctrine
Georgetown policy memo
An analysis of how fair use doctrine applies to generative AI training and outputs.
Streaming Consolidation in the Creator Economy
Georgetown research
A look at how consolidation among streaming platforms affects creators’ leverage and revenue.