Rebecca Silber
Director of Criminal Justice
Rebecca helps identify and manage philanthropic opportunities for the Criminal Justice Initiative, focusing on its pretrial justice portfolio. Prior to joining Arnold Ventures, she worked as a program manager for special initiatives at the Vera Institute of Justice. While there, Rebecca designed and led state-level sentencing reform, pretrial reform, and policy implementation. She also authored publications on topics relating to sentencing and corrections reform and compassionate release.
Rebecca began her career as a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where she represented people on parole and about to be paroled in New York.
Rebecca earned her law degree from Fordham Law School, where she was a member of the Law Review, and bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University.
