Dana Halle

Dana Halle is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Down Syndrome Foundation of Orange County. She also developed and continues to expand The Learning Program and LP Online, educational platforms which improve academic outcomes for learners with Down syndrome. She currently trains and supports Down syndrome organizations across the nation in their delivery of local educational programming. Dana also provides weekly direct instruction on literacy, math and social skills to students (ages nine through twenty-three) in DSF’s Learning Center in Irvine, California. Dana attended Pomona College, where she earned a B.A. in Public Policy Analysis & Psychology and the University of California, Hastings School of Law, where she earned her J.D. Dana practiced law as a business litigator for ten years before taking time off to parent her three children, the youngest of whom, Nick, has Down syndrome. Soon after Nick’s birth in 1998, Dana began advocating on behalf of children with Down syndrome and their families.