Our Experts
The Coalition for Sensible Safeguards is led by a variety of issue experts, who are available to discuss the crucial need for public protections and the unconscionable efforts to delay and block vital standards and safeguards. If you would like to speak with one of our experts, please contact David Rosen at drosen@citizen.org or reach out to the press office at the appropriate organization.
Coalition Leaders and Staff
Rachel Weintraub, CSS Executive Director
Expertise: regulatory process and legislation, consumer product safety
Email: rweintraub@sensiblesafeguards.org
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. 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, and produce timely research on regulatory 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). She has testified on behalf of consumers before Congress and the Consumer Product Safety Commission on numerous product safety issues, and has frequently been featured in the media as an expert on regulatory issues, product safety, and other consumer issues.
Sam Berger, Consultant
Expertise: regulatory process, economics of regulation
Sam Berger is a consultant for the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards. Previously, he served as Associate Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and as Director of Strategic Operations and Policy for the White House COVID-19 Response Team. Berger also served as Vice President for Democracy and Government Reform at the Center for American Progress, as a Senior Policy Advisor at the White House Domestic Policy Council, and as Senior Counselor and Policy Advisor at OMB.
Amit Narang, Consultant
Expertise: regulatory process and legislation
Amit Narang is a consultant for the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards. Previously, he was the Regulatory Policy Advocate for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division. He is an expert on the federal regulatory process and has testified before Congress on legislation and issues relating to the Executive Branch, the rulemaking process, and Congressional oversight of federal agencies. He has been quoted in numerous media outlets as an expert in the regulatory process. Amit earned his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the American University-Washington College of Law, where he was an editor of the Administrative Law Review. Amit is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Administrative Law Review of the Washington College of Law, and also serves as a member of the Advisory Council at the State Energy and Environmental Impact Center at NYU School of Law.
Coalition Co-Chairs
- Robert Weissman, Public Citizen
Expertise: regulatory process and legislation, big tech, global trade - Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen
Expertise: regulatory process and legislation, big tech, financial safeguards - Susan Weinstock, Consumer Federation of America
Expertise: consumer product safety, financial safeguards
Experts from Member Organizations
- David Arkush, Public Citizen
Expertise: climate - Catherine Chase, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
Expertise: transportation safety - Jeffrey Chester, Center for Digital Democracy
Expertise: technology, digital privacy - Daniel Costa, Economic Policy Institute
Expertise: immigration, wages, worker protections, farmworkers - Rick Claypool, Public Citizen
Expertise: corporate crime, regulatory enforcement - Lisa Donner, Americans for Financial Reform
Expertise: financial safeguards - Rachel Gittleman, Consumer Federation of America
Expertise: financial safeguards - James Goodwin, Center for Progressive Reform
Expertise: regulatory process and legislation, environment - Brielle Green, Earthjustice
Expertise: environment, regulatory process and legislation - Thomas Gremillion, Consumer Federation of America
Expertise: food safety - Micah Hauptman, Consumer Federation of America
Expertise: financial safeguards - Craig Holman, Public Citizen
Expertise: campaign finance, ethics, lobbying - Jennifer Jones, Union of Concerned Scientists
Expertise: scientific integrity, science policy - Frank Knapp, American Sustainable Business Network
Expertise: small businesses, entrepreneurs, innovation - David Levine, American Sustainable Business Network
Expertise: small businesses, entrepreneurs, innovation - Mike Litt, U.S. PIRG
Expertise: consumer financial protection, digital privacy - Celine McNicholas, Economic Policy Institute
Expertise: economy, jobs, wages, worker protections - Ed Mierzwinski, U.S. PIRG
Expertise: consumer protection - Kyle K. Moore, Economic Policy Institute
Expertise: public health, economy, jobs, wages, racial economic disparities - Bart Naylor, Public Citizen
Expertise: financial safeguards - Rebecca Reindel, AFL-CIO
Expertise: worker protections - Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute
Expertise: jobs, economy, wages, worker protections, regulatory impact analysis, regulatory process - Bitsy Skerry, Public Citizen
Expertise: regulatory process and legislation - Tyson Slocum, Public Citizen
Expertise: energy - Melinda St. Louis, Public Citizen
Expertise: global trade - Kyra Taylor, National Consumer Law Center
Expertise: student loans - Katie Tracy, Public Citizen
Expertise: regulatory process and legislation, worker protections - Valerie Wilson, Economic Policy Institute
Expertise: economy, jobs, wages, worker protections, racial economic disparities - Erin Witte, Consumer Federation of America
Expertise: consumer protection, auto finance - Allison Zieve, Public Citizen
Expertise: law and litigation