Renee Hernandez Rodriguez is a Summer Law Clerk with the Debtors’ Prison Project. She is based in Northern California. Renee helps to develop and litigate cases nationwide challengingpolicies that criminalize poverty.
Renee is a rising 3L and Public Interest Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. There, she participated in the Tenants’ Rights Project, where she drafted answers to eviction lawsuits and demand letters regarding housing issues on behalf of indigent tenants. Renee spent her previous summer combatting incarceration, criminalization, and police abuse of power with the Criminal Law Project at the ACLU of Northern California. For her last year of law school, Renee looks forward to serving as a Diversity Editor on the California Law Review and as a student attorney representing a client before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Before her law school journey, Renee received her B.A. in Humanities from Yale University. She also worked as a legal assistant defending unaccompanied children in their immigration cases in southern Arizona for four years, a memorable experience that inspired her to go to law school.