Denise Bahena-Bustos is a JD candidate at the University of North Carolina School of Law and will graduate in 2026. She graduated from Meredith College, a historically women’s college in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2023. Denise has a Bachelor of Science in Public Health and Political Science. Denise spent her 1L summer at RTI International, located in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, in the Office of Corporate Counsel.