Overview

Ashley De Vance works on the YM&C Student Services and Complaints Teams, focusing on student rights, discipline, special education, UCP, OCR, and Title IX. She has specialized knowledge about educating homeless and foster youth and developing legally compliant ethnic studies programs. Ashley also has experience defending schools in due process hearings.

Before joining Young, Minney & Corr, LLP, Ashley worked as a litigation attorney at a large, international firm in Downtown Los Angeles. During this time, she focused on various areas of litigation and represented clients in state, federal, and arbitral forums. She also engaged in extensive pro bono work with the ACLU Justice Lab and served on the Public Counsel Leadership Council.

Ashley earned her J.D. from the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, along with a public interest law certificate. While in law school, Ashley worked for the USC International Human Rights Clinic as a Refugee Rights Advocacy team member and served in several leadership positions, including a peer mentor and the Black Law Students Association community service chair. She also spent a semester abroad in Lyon, France, earning a postgraduate International and European Business Law diploma.

Ashley has always been passionate about education and promoting educational equity. Before pursuing a career in law, she earned a Master of Education and a single-subject teaching credential from the University of California, Los Angeles. Ashley then spent three years as a high school social science teacher at a charter school in Los Angeles.

Ashley volunteers as an Alumni Ambassador for the University of California, Gould School of Law, and works with Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), a nonprofit organization that provides educational and career support for students from underserved communities.