Rebecca Silber, Chief Operating Officer
Becky has worked in philanthropy, policy and law for nearly 20 years. As a national policy expert at the Vera Institute of Justice, she led criminal justice policy development and reform implementation projects in Georgia, South Dakota, Tennessee, Oklahoma and New York, focusing on issues such as pretrial detention, jail population reduction, sentencing and community supervision reform, and compassionate release. At the philanthropy Arnold Ventures, she designed, developed and executed funding strategies to drive policy change in the areas of public defense, pretrial justice and prosecution. Becky began her career as a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
Becky received a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Fordham Law School. She serves on the boards of the Medical Justice Alliance and Flatbush Jewish Center; on the Steering and Advocacy Committees of the New York Jewish Coalition for Criminal Justice Reform; and as a 2023 92nd Street Y Women In Power fellow.