Rachel Levinson-Waldman

Rachel Levinson-Waldman (Bluesky – LinkedIn) serves as Managing Director to the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, which seeks to advance effective national security policies that respect constitutional values and the rule of law. Levinson-Waldman is active on issues at the intersection of civil liberties, national security, and law enforcement, including the federal government’s use of surveillance technologies and information collection in the immigration and national security context, with a particular focus on government agencies’ collection and monitoring of social media. In 2024, Levinson-Waldman served as an Ian Axford Fellow in Public Policy at the New Zealand Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

From 2006 through 2011, Ms. Levinson-Waldman served as in-house counsel to the American Association of University Professors. From 2003 through 2006, Ms. Levinson-Waldman served as a Trial Attorney in the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Ms. Levinson-Waldman clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Ms. Levinson-Waldman received a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and a BA in Religion from Williams College.