Amara Neng

Amara Neng holds a B.A. from Yale University as well as a J.D. and a Graduate Certificate in Human Rights from the University of Connecticut School of Law. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Neng worked as a legal assistant at Costa & Riccio for more than two years.

 During law school, she served as a student attorney in the Asylum and Human Rights Clinic where she successfully obtained a rare grant of humanitarian asylum in Hartford Immigration Court for her client who suffered severe persecution during the Rwandan genocide. Ms. Neng also successfully filed for and obtained a trafficking (T) visa for her client who was a victim of human trafficking in the United States. For her work, Ms. Neng was awarded the Hon. M. Joseph Blumenfeld Award for Outstanding Client Representation.

 During law school, Ms. Neng served as a legal intern at the Center for Children’s Advocacy in Hartford, CT. She also organized multiple clinics that assisted indigent families in and around Connecticut who were facing termination of utilities due to inability to pay.

 Before joining Costa & Riccio as an Associate Attorney, Ms. Neng worked as a Litigation Associate for a well-respected law firm in Boston, where she handled a variety of civil matters, including, but not limited to, contracts negotiations, insurance defense, employment discrimination, and complex business litigation.

 Ms. Neng is very actively involved in a number of charitable causes in the U.S. and abroad. For many years, she has participated in and/or led several trips through various nonprofit organizations to Mississippi, Louisiana, New York, Mexico and Haiti, where she has assisted in the construction of homes for those without safe and secure shelter. She also supports and volunteers with an organization that rescues and provides for orphans living in Haiti. In addition, Ms. Neng has spent several weeks volunteering in Panama with a nonprofit that provides medical care to remote villages that lack access to proper healthcare.

 Ms. Neng is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association and the Massachusetts Bar Association.