Jessica Selecky oversees NYLAG’s Special Education Unit (SEU), which works to ensure that low-income New York City children with disabilities receive the free appropriate public education guaranteed to them by federal and state law. SEU attorneys represent parents of children with disabilities by advocating at Individualized Education Program meetings, seeking funding for independent educational evaluations, and obtaining appropriate educational services and school placements, including reimbursement for private specialized schools for children with disabilities and home-based programming.

Before joining NYLAG in 2019, Jessica was a clinical law fellow and staff attorney at Rutgers Law School in the Education Health Law Clinic’s H.E.A.L. Collaborative—an innovative medical legal partnership project—where she represented families of children with disabilities in Newark, New Jersey in a variety of civil legal services matters, including special education cases. Prior to her work at Rutgers, Jessica was a law clerk on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi and a litigation associate at the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.