Riti Singh

For twelve years, Riti Singh was an attorney in the Juvenile Rights Practice of The Legal Aid Society. As an appellate attorney, Riti represented children in abuse, neglect, custody/guardianship, and termination of parental rights proceedings. She was responsible for drafting, filing, and arguing briefs on behalf of children in New York appellate courts, as well as counseling clients and advising attorneys on trial strategy. Before joining the Appeals Unit in 2016, Riti was a trial attorney, regularly appearing in Queens County Family Court as Attorney for the Child in child protective cases. 

In addition, Riti is actively involved with the South Asian Bar Association of New York (SABANY), serving as the VP of Public Interest for the 2022 at 2024 terms and the VP of Gender and LGBTQ Equity for the 2023 term. She is also a mentor with The Appellate Project (TAP), which aims to empower law students of color to pursue and thrive in the appellate field.

Riti earned her law degree from Brooklyn Law School, where she graduated cum laude and was a member of the Brooklyn Law Review, an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Fellow, and the recipient of the Professor Nancy H. Fink Family Law Award. She was also a Bergstrom Child Welfare Law Fellow and the recipient of a SABANY Public Interest Fellowship. Prior to law school, Riti taught high school English with Teach for America in New Orleans, Louisiana, and earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.