Staff

Rachel Goodman

Special Counsel & Team Manager, Free Expression and the Right to Dissent

Rachel Goodman co-leads Protect Democracy’s Free Expression and the Right to Dissent team, working to protect speech and press freedom through litigation and other forms of advocacy. Rachel has developed and filed impact litigation for fifteen years, including leading Protect Democracy’s Law for Truth project. Rachel began her career at the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, where she filed cutting-edge housing discrimination cases and led successful efforts to force Facebook to disallow racial discrimination in its advertising services. She earned a J.D. from NYU School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Fellow and elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a B.A. with honors with from Yale College. She was a law clerk to the Hon. Joseph A. Greenaway, III, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.