Biography

In addition to pursuing her PhD in the Klein College of Media and Communication, Marian Grace Braccia also is a full-time faculty member at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, where she has served as Director of the LL.M. in Trial Advocacy and a Practice Professor of Law since 2018.

Braccia earned her Juris Doctor from Temple Law School in 2006, after graduating summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in urban studies. An accomplished litigator, she spent 12 years as an Assistant District Attorney in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, handling Major Trials and cases in the Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit.

At Temple, Braccia teaches Evidence and Integrated Trial Advocacy to JD students and frequently presents on gender bias in the courtroom, focusing on its impact on transgender and gender-diverse people and cisgender women—the central focus of her doctoral research at Klein.

Internationally, she teaches American trial advocacy to lawyers in Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, and Peru through Temple’s Chilean pre-LL.M. program, as well as Evidence Law to Chinese legal professionals in the Temple-Tsinghua LL.M. degree program. In 2024, she was appointed to a six-year term on the Pennsylvania Committee on Rules of Evidence.

A proud Philadelphia native, Braccia lives in the city with her husband, Brian, their four children, and one fur baby.