Wednesday\, November 19\, 2025\, from 10:0 0 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. ET
The Alumni in Residence program connects curren t HLS students with accomplished HLS alumni for one-on-one career mentoring and advice. You’re invited to meet with Amanda Teo J.D. '05 during their v irtual office hours. Sign up for a 20-minute Zoom appointment.
< p>Amanda Teo is the Executive Director of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy. A career public servant\, she previously served as C ounsel to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts\, advising th e leadership team on strategic planning and cross-functional policy initiat ives. She also practiced as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Rights Unit. Amanda was Chief of Staff at the Suffolk County D.A.’s Office\, where she led efforts to transition the state’s largest D.A.’s office toward a p ublic-health-focused\, data-informed\, and equity-minded model of prosecuti on. An appellate prosecutor for a decade\, Amanda has briefed and argued ov er 75 cases in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Court of Appeal s. She serves as Vice-Chair of the Boards of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County and the Park School of Brookline.
Amanda r eceived her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School\, where she ser ved as Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She clerked for the Hons . Sandra Lynch and Kermit Lipez on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She also taught for almost a decade at Harvard\, where she obtaine d a M.A. and pursued a Ph.D. in English and American Literature. Amanda gra duated summa cum laude from Princeton University. She has a certif icate in Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion from Cornell University.
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