Rebecca Feldherr

Contact

rf2773@columbia.edu 

About

Rebecca holds the position of Research Associate at INCITE. In this capacity, her work principally involves research and interviewing for the Obama Scholars Global Leadership Study and the Obama Presidency Oral History Project, and coordination of the Assembling Voices Fellows Program and the Summer Institute: Oral History and Social Change. At Skidmore College ('20) she studied Sociology with an academic concentration in societal inequity and inequality in the context of race relations in the United States. Her Bachelor's thesis was awarded the Periclean Scholars Award and inquired into the legacy of slavery and political ideology as predictors of White racial resentment towards African Americans. In previous years, Rebecca engaged in research and advocacy work focused on criminal justice and education reform during her time at the Center for Advancing Opportunity in Washington, D.C. and at Johns Hopkins University.