Devin Kinyon oversees the first-year Academic Success Program, teaches Advanced Legal Writing: Analysis, and advises upper-division students in the Directed Study program. He also leads APD skills workshops, administers the first-year practice exam series, trains and supervises upper-division APD student fellows, and provides individual counseling to law students from their first year through Bar study.

As a law student, Kinyon was active in the University of San Francisco's public interest lawyering community, represented low wage workers in USF's Employment Law Clinic, and received CALI Awards for Excellence in USF's Poverty Law and Rebellious Lawyering seminars. He has clerked in the BART General Counsel's Office, the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, and in the California Judiciary's Administrative Office of the Courts.

Prior to becoming at attorney, Kinyon worked in service-learning, leadership development, and orientation programs at UC Berkeley. He directed an academic internship program in partnership with the City of Berkeley and Berkeley Unified School District; advised a group of student-initiated nonprofit organizations; managed an outreach program for first-generation Cal students; and directed campuswide transitional programs for new students and their families. He also designed and instructed courses in Education, Social Welfare, and City & Regional Planning. Kinyon chaired the campus' highest advisory body on human resources and employee affairs, and served a student conduct hearing officer.