DEI Legality Webinar with Arnold & Porter Law Partners | Sanje Ratnavale | 2 Min Read

DEI Legality Webinar with Arnold & Porter Law Partners | Sanje Ratnavale | 2 Min Read

February 12, 2025

The following webinar, attended by nearly 100 independent school leaders on February 11, explores the implications of the Trump Administration’s Executive Orders and approach towards discrimination and DEI. In this webinar, the DC Law Firm, Arnold & Porter examines the changing nature of what constitutes illegality in the context of non-profit charitable purposes. It looks at the way the Trump administration is seeing civil rights laws, preference towards minorities, and affirmative action methods as reverse discrimination towards in particular, white people. Participants asked the following questions that were addressed:

  1. What protections are there at the state level, particularly for schools in blue states? We issued bonds, can they be impacted?
  2. If we don’t receive Federal assistance, are we OK?
  3. The Congressional Research Service document Sanje shared relating to the illegality doctrine as regards private schools’ non-profit status being revoked by the IRS and the cases mentioned seem to say that parents have a right to ask for our nonprofit status to be revoked. Who has standing to do that and is that right?
  4. Would you advise us to support lawsuits that seek to invalidate any…
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Sanje Ratnavale

Sanje founded OESIS in 2012 and serves as the President of what has grown to become the leading network for innovation at independent schools: the acronym OESIS grew from the initial focus on Online Education Strategies for Independent Schools. He has held senior administrative positions at independent schools including Associate Head of School at a K-12 school for seven years, High School Principal for three years, and CFO for seven years. Prior to making a switch to education, Sanje spent 15 years in venture capital, investment banking, and senior C-level (CEO, COO, CFO) management. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford University (B.A. and M.A. in Law/Jurisprudence). Sanje is based out of Santa Monica.