About
Ms. Janeen Steel has 21 years of advocating on behalf of students with disabilities. She uses quite a few strategies to combat for justice for college students. Having a getting to know disability herself, which turned into now not identified till she changed into 27 years old, she knows the battle those with gaining knowledge of disabilities have to revel in in an effort to reap an schooling. While at UCLA Law School, Ms. Steel based Learning Rights and obtained an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1999 to start fighting for the rights of college students with disabilities dwelling in poverty. In 2005, Learning Rights Law Center turned into launched as a non-income criminal offerings corporation, which Janeen served as the executive director for 8 years and co-executive director for seven years until April of 2021. In that 21 years, Janeen no longer most effective oversaw the agency, but turned into also lead or recommend on quite a few civil rights litigation and unique education administrative court cases. She has additionally taught special schooling regulation at a variety of Los Angeles universities, consisting of Loyola Law School, University of Southern California Law School, University of California Los Angeles Law School, the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University, and the School of Education at Loyola Marymount. At Loyola, she taught criminal ethics for school counselors and drafted curriculum for faculty directors to make certain faculty principals were knowledgeable approximately unique schooling law. She has additionally supplied at severa meetings as a keynote speaker and has received awards for her paintings.
In May of 2021, Ms. Steel joined the workplace of Vanaman German LLP, a boutique law office with over 40 years of advocating for the rights of college students with disabilities.
Ms. Steel earned her J.D. from the UCLA School of Law in 1999 and a B.A. from the California State University, San Francisco, in 1993.
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- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination
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