Renée has been a senior program officer at the Annie E. Casey Foundation; director of the Health Promotion Program for Urban Youth at Boston City Hospital; director of the Community Coalition to Prevent Black Homicide, the first Office of Minority Health-funded project focused on preventing homicide in an African American community, and director of a five-year National Institutes of Health-funded school-based intervention, Reach for Health, that was named a promising program by the U.S. Department of Education.