Karen DeMeola

Karen DeMeola is the Assistant Dean of Students. She received her undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Connecticut and her JD, also from UConn, in 1996. After graduation, Assistant Dean DeMeola was a civil rights litigator focused primarily on employment discrimination, police brutality, and housing discrimination. She is admitted to practice in Connecticut and the Federal District Court, District of Connecticut.

Assistant Dean DeMeola began her tenure in admissions as an Assistant Director for Western New England College School of Law. Her return to UConn Law School was as Director of Admissions and most recently as Assistant Dean for Admissions and Student Finance. Assistant Dean DeMeola has presented on numerous panels, conferences, and symposia on diversifying law school populations; the intersectionality of race, class, gender, religion, and sexual orientation in the law school admissions process; challenges and changes in admissions; and numerous pipeline projects. Assistant Dean DeMeola has served on the executive committees of the National Network of Law School Officers and the Connecticut Lawyers Group. She also served on the Law School Admission Council Subcommittee on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues, and has been on the Board of Directors for True Colors, Inc., a non-profit organization which focuses on at risk GLBTQI youth. Assistant Dean DeMeola also serves as an adjunct teaching Critical Identity Theory.