About me
Tonya Saheli, JD, MS, is the owner of Saheli Legal Mediation and Arbitration, LLC and ADR Solutions, LLC, where she provides private ADR support to school districts, inclusive of IEP/504 meeting facilitation and mediation, due process corrective action, ADR, and Title IX trainings.
After graduating Law School, Tonya set out to change the way legal conflicts and other disputes are resolved outside of court. After mediating hundreds of litigated court cases, she decided to concentrate on getting to the conflict before it made it to court. Through these efforts, her passion for Alternative Dispute Resolution grew into working with California Special Education Departments to resolve conflicts before they turn into due process complaints and litigated disputes. Overall, she has been mediating special education disputes and Facilitating IEP meetings for almost 10 years throughout the state of California. In the fall of 2022, Tonya Saheli started a monthly ADR Community of Practice with Special Education Educators and parents, which helped fuel the idea of an annual Back to School ADR Symposium for educators and parents. The first ADR Symposium was held on August 26, 2023 and it was a success, as numerous Northern CA school districts were represented.
For the past 8 years, Tonya has been instrumental in building and maintaining the Special Education ADR program in the San Francisco Unified School District. For the past 3 years, Tonya's ADR work and presence has expanded exponentially to school districts throughout California.
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