Rebecca Rutland Soulen

Rebecca is from Annandale, Virginia. After graduating from Yale in 2020 with a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, she worked for the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a data scientist and had a formative experience deploying to recovery efforts from Hurricane Ida. She transitioned into climate work, including as Deputy Director for Sustainability at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Between her first and second year at Princeton SPIA, she spent the summer working for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva, Switzerland. Rebecca is passionate about making public institutions transparent and accountable.