Before joining the University of Chicago Law School, Claire served as director of periodicals at the American Bar Association (ABA) where she led a group of 22 editors to publish nearly 100 magazines, newsletters, and journals for the association.

She is currently an editorial board member of Human Rights, a magazine published by the ABA’s Section of Civil Rights & Social Justice. She was a staff attorney at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law and editor of its flagship publication, Clearinghouse Review, a national poverty law journal. She also served as one of the first directors of content at Illinois Legal Aid Online.

She holds a JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School and a BA in political science from Northwestern University.