Daniel Senter

Staff
Deputy Director & Counsel, Compassionate Education Systems
Portrait photograph of Dan Senter

Dan Senter serves as Deputy Director and Counsel for the Compassionate Education Systems team. Dan provides legal and programmatic support primarily in the areas of youth rights, general and special education law, and education technology legal issues such as privacy rights.

Prior to joining the National Center for Youth Law, Dan founded and directed the Education Advocacy Project at the East Bay Children’s Law Offices, served as an intellectual property attorney at Donahue Fitzgerald LLP, and was a special education teacher. Dan is the recipient of the Irmas Fellowship and Jefferson Award. He was named Outstanding Young Lawyer by the National Association of Counsel for Children. Dan is a certified mediator and a graduate of Harvard College and USC Gould School of Law.

Dan is an East Bay sports fan, a podcast and local music enthusiast, and sucker for foggy days spent at the beach with his family.