Léna Gunyuzu

Currently pursuing her first year of a Master’s degree in Economic Law at Sciences Po Paris, Léna wants to become a lawyer specializing in business criminal law. What attracts her to this field is complexity. Where economic interests meet the limits of the law, where strategy, ethics, and power brush against or clash with each other, she sees a space of truth that is demanding, shifting, and fascinating.

Raised in Sevran, in the northern suburbs of Paris, she grew up in an environment where understanding the rules, and learning to navigate them, is a condition of emancipation.

After completing a first year of law at Panthéon-Assas II, she joined Sciences Po and chose the major “Political Humanities,” convinced that law is better understood when thought alongside other disciplines. There, she explored mutual aid as a lever for social inclusion through her senior oral exam titled “Peer support: an antidote to social exclusivity?”

Fluent in five languages, French, English, Turkish, Portuguese, and Spanish, she pushed her openness further by spending a year studying at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. There, she delved into the sociology of incarceration and the history of political violence.

A sports enthusiast, she never misses an opportunity to challenge herself, except when it comes to rugby and handball, which she regards with a mix of respect and mild confusion. Currently, she is part of the Partnership team at Legal Change, an association promoting diversity and inclusion in the legal field. For Léna, law only makes sense when it remains porous, open to social realities, atypical paths, and voices too often unheard.