Rachel Weintraub

Executive Director, Coalition for Sensible Safeguards

Rachel Weintraub is the Executive Director of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards. As the first Executive Director of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards, Ms. Weintraub leads all aspects of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguard’s work.

Ms. Weintraub was the Legislative Director and General Counsel, and previously was the Director of Product Safety for Consumer Federation of America (CFA). Rachel worked with Consumer Federation of America from 2002 through 2022. Her primary focus was on advocacy on product safety issues. Ms. Weintraub represented CFA on behalf of consumers before the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Congress, state legislatures, and within voluntary standard setting organizations. Additionally for CFA, she worked on civil justice, regulatory reform and financial services issues as well as with a wide range of internal legal issues.

Ms. Weintraub testified on behalf of consumers before Congress and before the Consumer Product Safety Commission concerning numerous product safety issues. Ms. Weintraub frequently talked to the media about product safety and other consumer issues and has spoken about product safety issues at numerous national conferences. Rachel served on the Board of ANSI and on the F 15 Executive Committee of ASTM. Rachel is a past president of the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization.

Prior to her work for CFA, Ms. Weintraub was a consumer advocate with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, the national lobbying office for the state PIRGs, from September 1999 until December 2001. While at U.S. PIRG, she represented consumers on product safety and health care issues. In 1999, Ms. Weintraub graduated from the Boston University School of Law (JD). She spent her last year of law school at the Georgetown University Law Center where she also worked as a research assistant for the Federal Legislation Clinic. In 1996, Ms. Weintraub graduated phi beta kappa and magna cum laude from Binghamton University (BA).

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