Rachel supports The Center for Popular Democracy’s campaigns to enact and enforce strong workplace protections. She is a nationally recognized expert on the design and implementation of Fair Workweek policies to promote stable, predictable schedules and opportunities for full-time employment. In addition to supporting CPD partners and allies across the country to advocate for Fair Workweek legislation, Rachel leads CPD’s wage theft prevention work to improve compliance with a broad array of wage & hour, health and safety, and paid leave protections, and supports CPD’s work to envision new forms of worker organization and collective action.

Before joining CPD, Rachel litigated cases involving labor and employment, elections, state and local governments, and environmental protection at Strumwasser & Woocher, a public interest law firm. She represented the California Department of Insurance in a landmark enforcement action against a health insurance company for violations of consumer and provider protection laws. Rachel previously clerked for Hon. Marsha S. Berzon on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and before law school, organized hospital workers with the Service Employees International Union. Rachel is a graduate of Columbia Law School and Yale College, and lives in Los Angeles.