Jane Jeong

Jane Y. Jeong is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Special Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines how intersecting identities—such as race/ethnicity, culture, language, ability, and class—shape the educational experiences of families of individuals with dis/abilities. She focuses particularly on the roles that parents and siblings play as “running partners” in navigating the special education system. Her work interrogates how racialized and ableist structures influence family-school collaboration, access to services, and whose voices are privileged or marginalized in advocacy and decision-making spaces.