Reena Arora

REENA ARORA is an associate at Outten & Golden LLP and New York University (NYU) Public Interest Fellow, where she represents employees in all areas of employment law, including both individual cases and class actions. Before joining Outten & Golden LLP, Ms. Arora received an Arthur Helton Global Human Rights Fellowship to work in Chiang Mai, Thailand with a non-governmental organization, MAP Foundation, where she worked to protect the labor and employment rights of Burmese migrant workers from 2008-11. She received her B.A. in 2003 phi beta kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she received the Eric Dean Bender Prize for Commitment to a Public Service Oriented Cause and Vanderbilt Medal for Outstanding Contributions to NYU School of Law. She also received the national Equal Justice Works Award in Exemplary Public Service in 2007 for founding the Immigration Court Observation Project as part of National Lawyers’ Guild (NLG). During law school, Ms. Arora represented a domestic worker in a wage and hour case in federal court as part of the Immigrant Right’s Clinic, and prepared complex litigation on behalf of trafficked workers through a joint summer internship with the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC). She is admitted to practice in New York State, as well as the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.