Rachel Weintraub

Executive Director, Coalition for Sensible Safeguards

Rachel Weintraub is the Executive Director of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards and a nationally recognized expert on the regulatory process, consumer product safety, and legislation and advocacy defending and strengthening public protections.

As the first Executive Director of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards, Ms. Weintraub leads all aspects of the Coalition’s work. She has expanded the breadth of the Coalition’s substantive work to convene regulatory practitioners and advocates, educate legislators and stakeholders across policy sectors, and produce timely research and reports on regulatory and administrative policy issues. In her tenure, the Coalition has grown to include more than 220 member organizations.

Previously, Ms. Weintraub was the Legislative Director and General Counsel, and the Director of Product Safety for Consumer Federation of America (CFA), where her primary focus was on advocacy on product safety issues, with additional focus on civil justice, regulatory reform, and financial services issues, as well as a wide range of internal legal issues. Ms. Weintraub represented CFA on behalf of consumers before the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Congress, state legislatures, and within voluntary standard-setting organizations.

A recognized regulatory expert, Ms. Weintraub has testified on behalf of consumers before Congress and the Consumer Product Safety Commission on numerous product safety issues. She has frequently been featured in the media as an expert on regulatory issues, product safety, and other consumer issues.

As part of her consumer protection work, Ms. Weintraub served on the Board of ANSI and on the F15 Executive Committee of ASTM. She is a past president of the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization. She began her career as a consumer advocate with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), the national lobbying office for the state PIRGs, where she represented consumers on product safety and health care issues.

Ms. Weintraub graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Binghamton University, earned a Juris Doctor at the Boston University School of Law, and served as a research assistant for the Federal Legislation Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center.

Ms. Weintraub lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and three children.