Dana Shoenberg, Deputy Director

Dana Shoenberg is Deputy Director of the Center for Children’s Law and Policy (CCLP), where she works with juvenile justice systems around the country to reduce racial and ethnic disparities, increase alternatives to detention, and improve conditions of confinement in juvenile facilities. She also promotes federal legislative reforms related to juvenile justice and serves on the steering committee of the National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Coalition. Dana’s projects include providing on-site long-term technical assistance to jurisdictions, training juvenile justice professionals and other systems stakeholders, consulting on standards for juvenile facility conditions, researching, writing, and engaging in legislative and administrative advocacy.

From 1998 to 2005, she served in the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, where she investigated and sought remedies for patterns and practices of constitutional and other federal law violations in state and local juvenile detention facilities, jails, prisons, and police departments. Prior to that, she held two clinical teaching fellowships, in the Family Law Clinic at the University of Baltimore School of Law from 1996 to 1998, and in the Criminal Justice Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center from 1994 to 1996. Dana clerked for Judge Edward N. Cahn, then Chief Judge of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, from 1993 to 1994. She earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, a Master’s degree in legal advocacy from the Georgetown University Law Center, and a B.A. from Cornell University.

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