Elijah Moffe joined Disability Rights North Carolina in August 2024. His work focuses on ensuring that students with disabilities, whether in traditional schools or in prisons, jails, or detention centers, are able to remain in school and be afforded a free appropriate public education within the least restrictive, most inclusive environment possible. Elijah received a B.A. in Africana Studies from Davidson College, a M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education from Johns Hopkins University, and a J.D. from UNC Chapel Hill.
Prior to working for DRNC, Elijah taught 5th grade in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. He’s worked various jobs while attending law school (Americorps tutor with Durham Children’s Initiative, Housing Intake at Legal Aid, after school care for K-1 students at The Duke School). Elijah earned the 3L Student of the Year Pro Bono Publico Award in his last year at UNC law for work with Forward Justice (voting rights work and work on lowering and eliminating fines and fees for those subjected to the criminal legal system) and worked as an Associate Attorney at Gahagan Paradis practicing education and special education law.
Since his time in undergrad, Elijah has been deeply passionate about interrupting, lessening, and eliminating the systemic and intersectional impacts of marginalization. Outside of work, Elijah loves reading, exercising, cooking, discovering and showing others new music, and figuring out how to be a great new dad to his newborn child.