Rachel Deutsch directs the California Coalition for Worker Power’s Our Voices, Our Jobs campaigns to strengthen retaliation protections and invest in worker education.

Previously, at the Center for Popular Democracy, Rachel anchored passage and implementation of Fair Workweek policies. She built a national campaign hub to fight forced arbitration and advance innovative policy for collective enforcement of workplace rights. In 2020, Rachel launched Unemployed Action, a digital organizing initiative, and led a national coalition to win extension of federal pandemic unemployment benefits for 14 million workers. Rachel previously litigated cases involving labor and employment, elections, and environmental protection.

Before law school, Rachel organized hospital workers with the Service Employees International Union. She lives in Eagle Rock California.