Jeanette is a Senior Program Associate for Acacia’s Unaccompanied Children Program. Her work focuses on supporting legal and social service providers who represent unaccompanied children and increasing access to trauma-informed holistic legal representation. Jeanette previously worked at Loyola Law School’s Center for Juvenile Law and Policy, where she supported and advocated for system-impacted youth and helped educate and train law students in areas of trauma-informed best practices, vicarious trauma, and child development. Jeanette has a master’s degree in social work from the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, and a bachelor’s degree from California State University, Long Beach. She served as a lecturer at California State University, Los Angeles and taught a course titled “Forensic Mental Health.” A proud Southeast Los Angeles native, her hobbies include running, baking, and watching sports.

Select Publications

The School-to-Prison Pipeline for Probation Youth with Special Education Needs. (American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 91(3), 375–385., with Kim, B.-K. E., Johnson, J., Rhinehart, L., Logan-Greene, P., Lomeli, J., & Nurius, P. S. (2021).)
https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000538

Integrating Social Service Staff into Immigration Legal Teams in California (Produced by Jeanette Lomeli, MSW, Sylvia M. Gribbell, LCSW, Shantel Vachani, JD/MSWLos Angeles Center for Law and Justice for the Vera Institute of Justice Children’s Holistic Immigration Representation Project Network, November 2022.)
Integrating-Social-Service-Staff-into-Legal-Settings-in-California.pdf (laclj.org)