Rebecca Heller is an American lawyer specializing in human rights.
[1] She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005[6] and became a Fulbright Scholar in Malawi, working there on issues of food policy.
[1][4][5] She calls herself "an intensely neurotic and self-critical Jew", and has likened the recent treatment of refugees from the Middle East to the treatment received by Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.
[4] While a student at Dartmouth, Heller won the Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award of Campus Compact for her work connecting a Vermont homeless shelter with leftover food supplies from local farms.
[3][6] Heller has also been named one of the Christian Science Monitor's "30 under 30" change makers, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.