During law school, Charell was a summer law clerk with the Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana and the Southern Poverty Law Center, as well as a student attorney for the Tulane University Juvenile Clinic. In 2011, she was awarded the Robert Masur Fellowship in Civil Liberties by the Nation Institute. Charell worked as a staff investigator with the Orleans Public Defenders Office for several years before attending law school. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago and a Juris Doctor from Tulane Law School. She was admitted to the Louisiana Bar in 2014. Back to Top