Hailly T.N. Korman

HAILLY T.N. KORMAN is a senior associate partner at Bellwether in the Policy and Evaluation practice area and focuses on the intersections between schools and other child-serving systems. Hailly supports schools and their public agency partners as they work to craft practices that significantly improve outcomes for system-involved students, and she advocates for reforms that mitigate the institutional obstacles to providing high-quality education services to youth, particularly those served in institutional settings.

Prior to joining Bellwether, Hailly provided direct support to an emerging cohort of reform-minded education and youth justice system leaders across the country. Previously, she was an attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP, where she served as pro bono counsel in Reed v. State of California, representing student plaintiffs at underperforming Los Angeles public schools challenging the constitutionality of strict reverse-seniority layoffs. In 2010, she received both Public Counsel’s Impact Litigation Award and the ACLU’s Social Justice Award for her work on that case. Before law school, Hailly spent nine years teaching primary grades; she has also taught an undergraduate seminar at UCLA on education policy and politics and a “know your rights” course at a local alternative high school.

Hailly is a graduate of Brandeis University with a major in politics and minors in legal studies and education. She holds a J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where she was a member of the Public Interest and Critical Race Studies programs and the Collegium of University Teaching Fellows. She is also an alumna of Education Pioneers (LA ’08) and Teach For America (LA ’02).