Rebecca Duke Wiesenberg

Rebecca Duke Wiesenberg is a public interest technologist, systems builder, and program management professional specializing in technology policy, digital governance, and mission-driven operations. Her work focuses on scaling systems, building knowledge infrastructure, and designing processes that improve access to information, with a consistent emphasis on social responsibility, equity, and helping people make informed decisions that strengthen their communities. She brings over six years of experience across nonprofits, edtech, and policy organizations, where she integrates technology, language, and strategy to solve complex operational and social challenges.

Her professional journey has been driven by a mission to break barriers to information through language, data, and systems design. She began in journalism, where she founded and built a multilingual newsroom department that made news accessible in 12 languages through translated and original content. She developed the department from the ground up, including hiring pipelines, standard operating procedures, recruitment strategies, PR campaigns, outreach, and partnership development. In 2020, she shifted toward technology and startups to pursue a more quantitative approach to impact, applying her systems-thinking approach to scalable solutions. This led to a fellowship with the Alliance for Peacebuilding in 2024, where she supported a major annual conference in Washington, D.C., built a conference application in one month from scratch, and streamlined the organization’s RFP process—reducing completion time by two months and implementing workflows still used today. She is widely described as a “Swiss Army knife” professional, known for coding, speaking eight languages, and approaching challenges with a learning-oriented mindset.

More recently, Rebecca has worked at the intersection of AI policy, human rights, and data systems. She contributes to research and governance initiatives through the Center for AI and Digital Policy and related policy work in technology and racial justice. At the The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, she focused on strategic communications, client pitching, and training over 80 engineers in workplace advocacy and self-advocacy, using both English and Portuguese to help professionals articulate the value of their work to secure better compensation, working conditions, and funding. She also worked with Human Rights First on large-scale asylum case databases used by immigration attorneys nationwide, where she developed new frameworks to analyze linguistic discrimination in asylum outcomes. She recently completed her Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence with a focus on strategic management and policy, and her thesis examined privacy rights for prison visitors in Massachusetts, identifying legal gaps in constitutional protections and consumer privacy law. She is planning to apply to law school within the next few years to pursue labor law, continuing a career defined by public service, systems thinking, and a deep commitment to social responsibility.

• Strategic Operations
• Strategic Communications
• IT and Coding
• Journalism
• Translation and Interpretation
• Data Engineering
• Policy Analysis
• Privacy Law

• University of Massachusetts Amherst - BA in Linguistic Anthropology
• The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University - MA

• Alliance for Peacebuilding Fellowship (2024)
• Work highlighted by The Nation magazine

• All Tech is Human
• Women in Tech

• Volunteer with Holocaust survivor
• Help Afghan refugees with job applications and understanding American culture