Rinal Ray is a Project Coordinator and joined MCN in September, 2008. She is responsible for coordinating the Nonprofit Legal Handbook and the Preserve Charitable Tax Exemptions Campaign.

Before joining MCN, Rinal worked as a judicial intern, a law clerk at the Youth Law Project of the Minneapolis Legal Aid Society and was a Minnesota Justice Foundation summer law clerk at the Public Defender’s Office in Rochester. She also was a legal research assistant in the areas of public international law and she developed comparative jurisdictional exercises in the areas of professional responsibility, civil procedure and legislative history. Rinal volunteered with the Street Law program and Hennepin County’s Office of Multicultural Services and completed an AmeriCorp term of service with Admission Possible. Currently, she serves as the Governance and Incorporation Chair for the Twin Cities chapter of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network board.

Rinal was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 2008. She has a J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law and a B.A. degree in International Studies and Political Science from Macalester College.