Tsion Kebede
Founding partner, special education and IEP disputes
Tsion spent six years writing IEPs as a teacher. Now she reads them for parents.
Tsion started the firm after years as a special education teacher in Northern Virginia classrooms, where she sat on the school’s side of the IEP table. She knows how a team writes goals under time pressure, and where a plan tends to go vague.
She handles the firm’s special education and IEP dispute work, from first evaluations to due process hearings, and records the walk-through videos on this site.
Focus
- Special education eligibility
- IEP meetings and disputes
- Mediation and due process hearings
Where Tsion is admitted, and where she studied
Bar admissions
Virginia
2011
District of Columbia
2013
Courts
All Virginia state courts
2011
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
2014
Education
J.D., George Mason University
2011
M.Ed., Special Education, George Mason University
2004
Languages
English
Amharic
Fluent
Memberships
Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates
Member
Working with Tsion
Tsion reads every evaluation twice: once for what it says, and once for what it leaves out. Parents get her notes in writing before any meeting.
Outside the office she coaches a middle school robotics team in Fairfax on Saturday mornings.
Talk with Tsion about an IEP
Call or write to the office, and ask for Tsion by name.
A first call doesn’t make us your lawyers; a signed engagement letter does.