Rachel Weintraub

Executive Director, Coalition for Sensible Safeguards

Rachel Weintraub is the executive director for the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards, where she has directed the coalition’s lobby team for several years.

Previously she was the legislative director and senior counsel for Consumer Federation of America (CFA). Rachel worked with CFA since 2002, where her primary focus was 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.

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 S. PIRG, she represented consumers on product safety and health care issues.

In 1999, 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).