Rishi Sethi Khanna '24 MPA/JD '31, of Newton, MA, graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with a degree in Politics. Khanna is most passionate about environmental policy and criminal justice reform, understanding complementary relationships between state and federal policies in each area. During his gap year, Khanna worked as a consultant for the Environmental Defense Fund, tracking and analyzing legal and regulatory developments in emissions policies across the United States, and conducted historical research for professors at Harvard Law and Harvard Business School. Khanna has interned in numerous legal settings, conducting legal research at a public defenders' office in Massachusetts and gathering evidence for international tort claims at Leigh Day Solicitors in London. At Princeton, Khanna concentrated on American Politics, winning the Philo Sherman Bennett Prize for his senior thesis on the political history of the Fourteenth Amendment. Outside the classroom, Khanna sang in the Princeton Footnotes, edited the Princeton Legal Journal, wrote for the Daily Princetonian Opinion section and was a proud member of Terrace F. Club.