Neal Biography
Daria E. Neal is a Staff Attorney in the Environmental Justice Project at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C. In 1991, the Lawyers' Committee formed its Environmental Justice Project to represent communities of color in environmental and civil rights matters. The Lawyers' Committee uses the rule of law to challenge environmentally discriminatory conditions and decisions - and ultimately - to seek justice for people of color who are fighting to clean up contamination on the land where they live or who are fighting to stop environmentally harmful activities from occurring in their neighborhoods.
Ms. Neal is responsible for identifying, developing and litigating important environmental justice cases. Additionally, Ms. Neal monitors federal and state legislative policies on environmental justice issues. Ms. Neal represents communities subjected to discriminatory zoning resulting in the concentration of industrial plants and pollution in communities of color. Ms. Neal is currently involved in matters in Georgia, Arizona and North Carolina involving the discriminatory provision of public services to communities of color and the contamination of soil and water sources on and near reservation lands.
Ms. Neal is a graduate of the University of California Los Angeles, School of Law and received her undergraduate degree from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. During law school, Ms. Neal served as a law clerk for a law firm representing individuals exposed to toxic substances in the workplace. Prior to joining the Lawyers' Committee, Ms. Neal worked for a prominent civil rights law firm as well as a national law firm in the District of Columbia. Ms. Neal is licensed to practice in the District of Columbia, Virginia and California.