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Leticia Smith-Evans joined LDF in July 2008 as an assistant counsel. Leticia primarily focuses on ensuring equal access to educational opportunities at the pre-K through higher education levels via impact litigation, policy advocacy and technical assistance. Much of her work centers around voluntary integration, desegregation and school discipline reform. In addition, she has researched efforts to close the achievement gap via professional development in the area of cultural competency.
Prior to joining LDF, Leticia was a litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Dickinson R. Debevoise, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and was a policy advisor and agency liaison for Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle.
She received her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School where she was the recipient of the Wisconsin State Bar/Law School Academic Award for highest achievement in constitutional law and the Brown v. Board of Education Award for outstanding commitment to equal educational opportunity and social justice. She received her B.A. from Williams College, and an M.S. in Educational Administration and Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Leticia has served as an adjunct professor of Education Law and is a former public school teacher. She is a member of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Board of Visitors, and serves on a number of other nonprofit boards and committees.