Jenny Denny graduated from Loyola in May 2013 and after taking the Illinois bar exam, moved to Washington, DC, to begin her career at the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs through the Presidential Management Fellows program. She is now on detail (6-month placement) to the U.S. Department of Justice in the Educational Opportunities of the Civil Rights Division. In this role, she enforces several federal civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, language, sex, religion, and disability in schools and colleges. Her cases currently include enforcing racial desegregation court orders in two Louisiana parishes, monitoring a settlement agreement regarding sex-based harassment in a Minnesota school district, and investigating sexual assaults at a school for children with disabilities in Hawaii. In these cases, she reviews and evaluates constituent complaints, develops investigative strategies, assesses data, conducts interviews of school officials, and drafts court motions and settlement agreements.
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