Event

Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2022 presents Paige Joki Esq., Staff Attorney, Education Law Center Readings

Event open to the Penn community by Zoom. Please register here!

Paige Joki is a staff attorney at the Education Law Center, 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 the Education Law Center’s Philadelphia-based the Black Girls’ Education Justice initiatives. Paige joined ELC’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 two-year 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. Paige is a graduate of Whitman College and Temple University Beasley School of Law, where we was a NAACP LDF Earl Warren Fellow and Rubin-Presser Social Justice Fellow. Paige received the Beth Cross Award for her notable contributions to public service at Temple and has been inducted into the Rubin-Presser Public Interest Honor Society.

Hosted by Fariha Khan, ASAM Co-Director, in her course American Race: A Philadelphia Story,  SNF Paideia Program.