Reneé Garrick ’12, vice president of business and legal affairs at the public relations software company Muck Rack, has found ways to meld her career with her interests in sports and media.
When Reneé Garrick ’12 started her legal career, she gravitated toward an area that had always been a passion for her: sports. She interned with the New York Mets, the Brooklyn Nets and the NBA. Her first long-term position after graduating from Harvard Law School, at the New York City-based firm Debevoise & Plimpton, included intellectual property work for several professional sports leagues.
“It made the work more fun, to do it in a space I already enjoy as a recreational activity,” says Garrick, who’s currently the vice president of business and legal affairs at the public relations software company Muck Rack. “I decided to step away because there came a point where it was very difficult for me to compartmentalize and enjoy sports. I would be watching a game and instead of seeing the game, I’m seeing everything around the game. As you get more experience, you know what’s a fire and what’s not, and you know what you need to be worried about and what you don’t. I feel confident that if I want to re-enter the sports or media space I will be able to do it and have fun with it.”
Garrick, who was a prelaw political science major at Muhlenberg, came into College confident in her future career path: “I felt very, very sure that I wanted to go to law school,” she says. “...
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