Renay Frankel

Renay Frankel is the Director for Public Interest and Government. She joined the Co-op office in 2017 after providing career advising to law students as the Assistant Director of Harvard Law School’s Office of Public Interest Advising. Prior to working in career services, Renay practiced for 8 years in the public sector. She started her legal career as a public defender in Roxbury, MA with the Committee for Public Counsel Services (“CPCS”). She also worked as a housing attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services. In 2009, she was the recipient of a Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship, which led to the creation of a unique position at the Committee for Public Counsel Services to expand the public defender agency’s holistic defense practice and address clients’ civil legal issues. In this role, she provided training and advice to court-appointed criminal defense attorneys in Massachusetts regarding the civil consequences of criminal cases. She also facilitated collaboration between the public defender agency, civil legal services providers and community partners in order to support public defender clients.

Renay is a 2006 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law and received her B.A from Skidmore College. At NUSL, Renay’s co-ops included: New York Civil Liberties Union, San Francisco Public Defender, LevyRatner, P.C. (a union-side labor law firm), and the Youth Advocacy Division of CPCS. She was also a student attorney and teaching assistant in the Northeastern Law School Prisoners’ Rights Clinic. Prior to attending law school, Renay worked at a labor and employment law firm and a labor union in New York City.

Renay focuses on public interest, government, fellowships and judicial co-op/ clerkships.