Jonathan Gaston-Falk

Jonathan Gaston-Falk is an education law attorney with experience spanning almost a decade representing both school districts and student clients. Gaston-Falk was a high school student journalist in the inaugural class of contributors for The Talon, the York High School newspaper, in Yorktown, Virginia. He subsequently earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a juris doctor and master’s degree in urban planning from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Gaston-Falk joined the Student Press Law Center in March 2022, following a five-year tenure with the Legal Aid Society of Rochester, New York as program director of the education law unit, during which time he advocated for the free speech rights of students before countless boards of education and the Commissioner of Education in Albany.