Olena Neruk

Lena Neruk earned her first law degree at Odessa State University in Ukraine in 2000, and she practiced law in the Odessa region for the next 16 years.  After immigrating to the United States in 2016, she earned a Certificate in Paralegal Studies from Boston University in 2017 and an LLM degree from Suffolk University School of Law in Boston in 2021.  She is currently a paralegal at Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A. in Manchester. 

Lena started her volunteer work in Odessa in 1998 in support of UNICEF.  In 2022, she was a cofounder of Dobro New England, a nonprofit organization that sends humanitarian aid back to Ukraine. 

Lena lives in Londonderry with her husband.  She speaks Ukrainian, Russian, and English.  She was elected to the Board in August 2024.