Bettina Neuefeind, Esq.

Staff Attorney
Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative
Harvard Law School

(617) 496-9369 | bneuefeind@law.harvard.edu

Bettina Neuefeind is an attorney with the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI), a joint program of MAC and Harvard Law School, where she assists families of children exposed to trauma in obtaining appropriate educational services. She also provides trainings to Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative providers, and supports the safe and supportive school culture movement.

Before joining TLPI, Bettina was a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School investigating what fuels systems change in anti-poverty work, and an affiliate at Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, where she led the School Food Interventions project. Previously, Bettina was a fair housing attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid in Oakland, preserving housing for clients with disabilities through litigation, negotiation, and trainings. She also documented war crimes in Kosovo with the International Crisis Group, and advised at the United Nations Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court.

Bettina received an A.B. in Comparative Literature and History from Washington University in St. Louis, and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where she worked at the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic’s Mental Health Project.