Paige Joki (she/her) is a Senior Attorney at the Education Law Center-PA (ELC-PA), where she represents students, conducts trainings, and advocates to address the individual and systemic educational barriers facing students in Pennsylvania. She is responsible for leading ELC-PA’s Black Girls Education Justice Initiative. In 2026, Paige was appointed as an Affiliated Scholar at the UC Law San Francisco’s Center for Racial and Economic Justice in recognition of the ways that her racial-justice-centered scholarship and leadership of ELC-PA’s Black Girls Education Justice Initiative contributes to local, state, and national movements to build transformative education spaces. She was uplifted by The Philly Download, as one of “6 Philly women who know a thing or two about showing up for our communities." Paige is the proud inaugural winner of the Temple Law’s Student Public Interest Network’s (SPIN) 2022 Public Interest Impact award. Paige joined ELC-PA’s staff in 2017 as an Independence Foundation Public Interest Law Fellow, with a focus on eliminating individual and systemic barriers to quality education for students experiencing homelessness in the Philadelphia region. Highlights of her fellowship include drafting an amicus brief in G.S. v. Rose Tree Media School District, resulting in the first appellate court ruling on the application of the federal McKinney-Vento Act in an educational context, and a successful motion to make that ruling precedential as well as multiple cases brought on behalf of students experiencing homelessness. In 2014, Paige was selected as a NAACP LDF Earl Warren Fellow and a Temple University Beasley School of Law Rubin-Presser Social Justice Fellow. During her time at Temple Law, Paige interned and externed with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and was selected for the Honorable Lewis H. Pollak Memorial Scholarship. In 2017, she received the Beth Cross Award for her notable contributions to public service at Temple.

Harold Jordan is Senior Education Equity Coordinator at the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Beyond Zero Tolerance: Discipline and Policing in Pennsylvania Schools, co-author of Cops and No Counselors: How the Lack of School Mental Health Staff is Harming Students and Student Arrests in Allegheny County Schools: The Need for Transparency and Accountability, and the editor of Know Your Rights: A Handbook for Public School Students in Pennsylvania. Harold is a member of the board of directors of the Learning Disabilities Association of America. He has held leadership roles at the national Dignity in Schools Campaign, the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, and the American Friends Service Committee. Harold participated in the 2015 White House Rethink Discipline Summit. Harold is the recipient of the Education Law Center of PA’s Education Champion Award, the Marcienne and Herman Mattleman Award for Excellence in Public Education, and the Black Girls Equity Alliance’s 2025 See the Best in Me Equity Award. He holds a degree in social thought and analysis from Washington University in St. Louis.

Diane Dragan is the founder and owner of Dragan Law Firm, established in 2023 to champion the rights of children with disabilities and their families. A mother of five, three of whom have dyslexia, her passion for special education law grew from her family’s journey to secure meaningful supports and services. Before entering this field, Diane spent more than 15 years as a federal public defender, where she witnessed how unaddressed learning disabilities contribute to the “school-to-prison pipeline.” Today, Diane devotes her practice to guiding families through the complexities of special education, with a focus on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Child Find obligations. Her perspective as both a parent and a litigator shapes her mission to empower parents, educators, and students to work collaboratively toward equity and inclusion. She is honored to share practical insights on preparing due process cases and other litigation to work towards systemic change.

Kathy is the Director of Special Legal Projects at Children's Law Center in Washington, DC, where she works to expand Children’s Law Center’s impact through identifying and supporting opportunities across all of the programs. She directs Children's Law Center's impact litigation work and the brief services team. She was previously a senior supervising attorney with Healthy Together, a medical-legal partnership which brings Children’s Law Center lawyers side-by-side with pediatricians in health clinics to find and fix the root causes of a child’s health problem. Kathy is also a Commissioner on DC’s Access to Justice Commission. Prior to joining Children’s Law Center, Kathy was the domestic violence staff attorney at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty and the Queens supervisor for the Courtroom Advocate’s Project at Sanctuary for Families in New York City.