Maegan Smarkusky is a sophomore Presidential Scholar at Florida State University majoring in political science and minoring in philosophy of law.
As of 2024, she has interned for U.S. Congressman Gus Bilirakis, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, The Triangle Factory Fire Memorial Coalition, and Florida's Sixth Circuit State Attorney's Office. Additionally, she has given 2 TEDx talks—one of them concerning the Triangle Factory Fire and her statewide award winning original research on the topic. Last year, Maegan was a research assistant through Florida State University's Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) and worked on a project about second order thinking as it pertains to political polarization.
Maegan hopes to one day be a lawyer, possibly starting in dependency or labor law. She is particularly interested in legal review concerning child welfare, labor, and structural constitutional law.
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