Michele Scavongelli–Senior Counsel, Committee for Public Counsel Services, Youth Advocacy Division

Michele Scavongelli joined the EdLaw Project as an Equal Justice Works Fellow, sponsored by Bingham McCutchen, LLP in September 2012, and has continued on as a staff attorney until the present. She is currently Senior Counsel and Trial Panel Director for the EdLaw Project. Michele has successfully represented over two hundred families in the past thirteen years in both school discipline and special education matters, prevailing at Administrative Law hearings, in Superior Court, Federal Court, and in state complaints.  She is also the Executive Director of the Youth Advocacy Foundation (YAF), a 501(c)(3) organization attached to the state public defender office whose mission is to shut down the school-to-prison pipeline by ensuring that all court-involved kids have access to expert education advocacy. Michele graduated from Northeastern's School of Law and is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts.