Leah Kang is a Senior Attorney at Disability Rights California and a Lecturer on Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law where she teaches negotiation.

Leah has taught negotiation for over a decade, including as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law, an Invited Instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and as a member of teaching teams at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Negotiation Institute.

Prior to her current role at Disability Rights California, Leah worked on a wide range of civil rights and racial justice issues as an attorney at the ACLU of North Carolina, Forward Justice in Durham, North Carolina, and Advancement Project in Washington, D.C. Leah clerked for The Honorable Theodore D. Chuang of the U.S. District Court of Maryland and The Honorable O. Rogeriee Thompson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. in History, with a minor in Human Rights, cum laude from Columbia University, where she graduated phi beta kappa. 

Before law school, Leah was a fifth grade teacher in a public school in the Bronx, New York.