Megan Dho

Megan has over twenty years’ experience working as a child advocate in Washington, DC where she’s focused her efforts on improving access to quality educational services and supports for children with disabilities and youth involved in the child welfare system. In December of 2014, she joined DC’s Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) to serve as the Supervisor of Education and Child Care within the Office of Well Being. In that role, she leads the implementation of the agency’s first ever agency-wide Education Strategy while supervising a team of education specialists who link children to vital educational and child care services and support case workers in overcoming barriers to youth’s educational success. Prior to that, she spent nine years at the DC’s Children’s Law Center where she created an Educational Advocacy Project within their Guardian ad Litem Program to secure education supports and services for their child clients in the child welfare system. She has also represented parents and caregivers of children with disabilities as a clinical teaching fellow with the Family Advocacy Clinic at the Georgetown University Law Center and as an Equal Justice Works fellow at the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia. She currently serves as a mayoral appointee on DC’s State Advisory Panel on Special Education and the Community Schools Advisory Committee, and is an active member of the Students in Care Coordinating Committee and DC Superior Court’s Education Working Group – two groups that develop cross-agency initiatives to improve the educational outcomes of court-involved youth. She was the founder and former co-chair of DC’s Special Education Attorney Roundtable and while she was a student in law school, Ms. Dho was one of the founders of the Thurgood Marshall Public Charter School in SE Washington. Megan holds a J.D. and LL.M. degree from Georgetown University Law Center and completed her undergraduate studies at Bucknell University where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in International Relations and Spanish.

Megan Dho is Supervisory Well Being Specialist (Supervisor of Education and Child Care) at DC Child and Family Services Agency.