Tracy Hartlieb

Ms. Hartlieb first began working with students with disabilities as a teacher with the Northern Suburban Special Education District as part of the Northern Suburban Recreation Association in Northbrook, Illinois. As an attorney, she has provided disability rights advocacy through the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, represented clients at Equip for Equality’s Special Education Clinic, and, most recently, served as the director of the JCFS Chicago Legal Advocacy Center. She is a member of the national Council of Parents, Attorneys, and Advocates (COPAA), the Special Education Advocacy Coalition of Chicago (SPEACC), and the Illinois Attorney General’s Special Education Committee where she chairs the subcommittee on staff shortages in special education.