Rebecca Silbert has been supporting California's partnerships between higher education and corrections since 2013, most recently as Senior Director for the Rising Scholars Network, a group of more than 80 California Community Colleges serving incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students throughout the state. Previously, Rebecca led Corrections to College California, an independent non-profit initiative housed at The Opportunity Institute and co-directed with the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. Prior to The Opportunity Institute, Rebecca was Senior Policy Associate and then Executive Director of the Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she created the Corrections to College initiative with the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. Prior to her five years at the Warren Institute, Rebecca tried cases for nine years as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Northern District of California. Rebecca has a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA from UC Berkeley.