Jessica Kurtz joined the Children’s Law Center as a staff attorney with the guardian ad litem project in 2011. She graduated cum laude from American University Washington College of Law with her J.D. in 2011. While at WCL, Jessica worked in the Disability Rights Law Clinic and received the Clinical Legal Education Association Outstanding Student Award. She also participated as a fellow in the Marshall Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project teaching constitutional law to D.C. public high school students. Jessica graduated magna cum laude from Clemson University in 2008 with a BA in Early Childhood education.
The Children’s Law Center watches and the Children’s Law Center listens in a way that other organizations don’t … and frankly can’t. We establish relationships with children and their families and caregivers in a way that allows us to really get into their lives and work from the inside out.
-Ean High
Investigator,
Children’s Law Center