Jane Y Jeong
Jane Y. Jeong is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Special Education at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a Doctoral Fellow in Legal and Higher Education with the American Bar Foundation (ABF) and AccessLex Institute, and a 202526 Just Education Policy Fellow. Her line of inquiry centers on the hegemonic structures and ideologies that shape special education and unfolds along two interconnected strands:
1. System-level contradictions in special education.
Jeong investigates how legal provisions and policiessuch as IDEAs procedural safeguards and State Performance Plan indicatorsreproduce long-standing regimes of disproportionality. Through critical policy analysis and mixed-methods data, she traces the migration of these hegemonic logics from statute to microsystem and individual levels, illuminating breaches between laws, policies, and lived realities that still reverberate across schools and communities.
2. Family navigation and access.
Building on her work on sibling brokersneurotypical siblings who act as cultural and linguistic intermediaries for relatives with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Jeong & Strassfeld, 2024)Jeong examines how families interpret, translate, and resist those same systemic structures. Their navigational labor surfaces the entanglements of intersecting identity markers, offering community-rooted epistemologies for reimagining more just and collaborative service models.
1. System-level contradictions in special education.
Jeong investigates how legal provisions and policiessuch as IDEAs procedural safeguards and State Performance Plan indicatorsreproduce long-standing regimes of disproportionality. Through critical policy analysis and mixed-methods data, she traces the migration of these hegemonic logics from statute to microsystem and individual levels, illuminating breaches between laws, policies, and lived realities that still reverberate across schools and communities.
2. Family navigation and access.
Building on her work on sibling brokersneurotypical siblings who act as cultural and linguistic intermediaries for relatives with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Jeong & Strassfeld, 2024)Jeong examines how families interpret, translate, and resist those same systemic structures. Their navigational labor surfaces the entanglements of intersecting identity markers, offering community-rooted epistemologies for reimagining more just and collaborative service models.
