Rebecca Epstein is the Executive Director of the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality. She has over 20 years’ experience in litigation and policy development, and she has maintained a special focus on race and sex discrimination and the policies and practices that support marginalized girls. Rebecca was the lead author of Blueprint: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Sex Trafficking of Girls (2013) and co-author of The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls’ Story (2015), both published by the Center on Poverty and Inequality. She serves as the Associate Director of the National Girls Initiative, a program run by the USDOJ’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Programs, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Girls @ the Margin National Alliance and the Advisory Board of The Art of Yoga Project.
Previously, Rebecca served as a senior trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and worked as a staff attorney at Public Justice, a national public interest law firm in Washington DC. She also served as Policy Counsel at the National Partnership on Women and Families through a fellowship awarded by the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program at Georgetown Law.