Rebecca Dixon

Rebecca Dixon is the President and Chief Executive Officer at National Employment Law Project where she serves as a national leader in federal workers’ rights advocacy and thought leadership on issues of labor and racial, gender, and economic justice.

Prior to taking the helm at NELP, Dixon served on NELP’s Executive Management team as Chief of Programs. Since joining NELP, she has advanced its growth and impact while serving in several positions, including policy analyst and senior staff attorney. During the Great Recession and its aftermath, Dixon was a leader in winning unprecedented unemployment insurance coverage expansions in 20 states and multiple extensions of federal emergency benefits for long-term unemployed workers.

Dixon’s commitment to advancing workers’ rights and economic justice is rooted in her experience growing up in rural Mississippi.

Dixon was selected by the State of New York for its Empire State Leadership Fellows program, and served in the Office of the Governor in its Labor and Civil Rights Division. She is a member of the Mississippi Bar Association and the Advisory Council of the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program; a board member of The American Prospect, Americans for Financial Reform, the Coalition on Human Needs, the Hope Enterprise Corporation, and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation; and a member of the Economic Analysis and Research Network in the South, the 2020 Aspen Institute SOAR Leadership Fellowship, and the 2021 National Academy of Social Insurance’s Unemployment Insurance Reform Working Group and COVID-19 Task Force.

Dixon holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Duke University, and a law degree from Duke Law School.