Maya Simek, ESQ, LISW-S, MSW, serves as a clinical law professor/director of ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ School of Law’s Human Trafficking Law Clinic. Simek further serves as the legal director at Equality Ohio, where she developed, launched (2019), and is now supervising a statewide legal clinic for the lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer (LGBTQ+) community. She focuses her practice on the interdisciplinary issues impacting the LGBTQ+ community and human trafficking survivors, community lawyering, and the intersections between law and social work. Simek earned her JD from Cleveland State University College of Law, her MSSA from ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½â€™s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, and her BS from John Carroll University and is a proud graduate of the Gestalt Training Program (GTP) at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland (GIC). In addition, she is an Ohio Licensed Independent Social Worker with Supervision designation (LISW-S).
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