Noel is TLC’s Deputy Director, is a Senior Clinical Instructor, and is currently serving as TLC’s Acting Director. She is also a Lecturer on Law with Harvard Law School. She joined the Transactional Law Clinics as a Clinical Instructor in 2018. Before coming to Harvard, Noel was an associate in the corporate department of Ropes & Gray, LLP and a member of the firm’s asset management group where she focused her practice on representing investment products, their boards, and managers in transactional, regulatory, and compliance matters. Noel was also previously a fellow and associate counsel with the national office of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Prior to gaining her law degree, Noel worked in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where she was Chief of Staff to a Committee Chair and State Representative, and worked in various non-profit positions, including in fundraising and development. Noel is also the supervising attorney of the Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project. Noel received her B.A. from Bowdoin College, graduate certificate in non-profit management from Northeastern University, and J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law.