Biography
Rachel Littman brings years of experience as a trained corporate lawyer and nonprofit leader to her work with the YAA Board of Governors. Since 2019 she been the full-time volunteer executive director of the Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance (YANA), a group she became involved when she cofounded its New England Chapter in 2014. She has also served as president of the Yale Club of Houston, founder of the Rhode Island Chapter of YaleWomen, and an avid interviewer for Yale.
At Yale, Littman played varsity field hockey and lacrosse, and was part of the Student Investment Group. After receiving her BA in History of Art from Yale and her JD from Seton Hall Law School, cum laude, she started her career as a structured finance and securities lawyer with Wall Street law firms Milbank Tweed, Clifford Chance, and Freshfields. She was the assistant dean for career and professional development and taught legal research and writing at Pace Law School in White Plains, New York, and founded SeeTheGaps.org to explore disparities in educational and life success markers.
Littman has also served as chair of the Governance Committee and chair of the Board of Trustees for her high school alma mater, the Moses Brown School, a 200+-year-old K-12 Quaker school in Providence, Rhode Island. She is currently on the Board of Call, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, co-founded by Elie Wiesel.
