Rebecca Gendelman
Senior Research and Policy Counsel, Refugee Protection
As Senior Research and Policy Counsel with Refugee Protection, Rebecca supports Human Rights First’s efforts to promote the protection of refugees and reform the U.S. asylum system.
Rebecca received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2019. In law school, Rebecca was a student director of the Immigration Legal Services Clinic, where she represented asylum seekers and green card applicants. She was also a research coordinator for the Immigration Policy Tracking Project, which catalogues every immigration policy from January 2017 to January 2021. During law school, Rebecca interned at the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and the Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Appeals Bureau.
Rebecca graduated Cum Laude from Williams College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with honors.
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