Paige Joki
Affiliated Scholar
Bio
Paige Joki (she/her) is a senior attorney at the Education Law Center-PA (ELC-PA). She leads the Black Girl’s Education Justice Initiative, represents students, conducts trainings, and advocates to address the individual and systemic educational barriers facing students in Pennsylvania. Centering the lived expertise of students and families, her own lived expertise, and critical legal, feminist, and disability justice studies, Paige’s scholarship focuses on reimagining and operationalizing education spaces that center justice for Black girls and provide them every opportunity to thrive.
In 2014, Paige was selected as a NAACP LDF Earl Warren Fellow and a Temple University Beasley School of Law Rubin-Presser Social Justice Fellow. At Temple Law, she interned and externed with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which selected her for the Honorable Lewis H. Pollak Memorial Scholarship. Upon graduating in 2017, Paige was inducted into the Rubin-Presser Public Interest Honor Society and received the Beth Cross Award for her notable contributions to public service at Temple.
Paige began her legal practice as an Independence Foundation Public Interest Law Fellow at ELC-PA and in 2022 was the inaugural winner of the Temple Law Student Public Interest Network’s Public Interest Impact award. In 2026, The Philly Download recognized Paige as one of “6 Philly women who know a thing or two about showing up for our communities.