Annie O'Connell

Annie O'Connell is a Project Manager at Boston Law Collaborative, LLC. Annie manages research and writing projects on legal issues and mediation conflicts.For the last ten years, her work and education have focused on communications and issues involving families, women, children and communities from Washington, D.C. to New York City to Boston.

While in law school, Annie was a member of the Family Law Society and Northeastern University Law Journal. She also served as a Women’s Law Caucus mentor, and as a volunteer mentor with ACCESS, a non-profit organization which aims to increase the number of Boston Public School students who graduate from college. In addition to interning at Boston Law Collaborative during law school, she worked in Boston at the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office in the Appellate Unit, for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Major Crimes Unit, for a small private firm that focuses on business litigation, personal injury and legal malpractice, and for the Attorney General’s Civil Trial Division. During her second and third years of law school, Annie also worked for the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project which conducts research and supports policy initiatives on anti-civil rights violence in the U.S. and other injustices of that Era.

Prior to law school, Annie worked in the Washington, D.C. area as an Information & Communications Associate at the Forum for Youth Investment, a non-profit “action tank” that consults with community stakeholders to ensure that young people are ready for college, work and life. She also wrote and edited for several magazines, including Teacher Magazine, Washington Parent and Washington Woman magazines, and worked in Manhattan at Children’s PressLine which engages children in the journalism process to make their voices heard.