Drake Reed earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served on the Board of Student Advisers, was the political co-chair for Lambda Law Alliance, and was part of the Prison Legal Assistance Project.
While in law school, Drake was a legal extern for both the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Boston, Massachusetts, and the California Department of Justice, Civil Rights Enforcement section.
Prior to law school, Drake was a 2016 Teach for America Corps Member, placed in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.