Dr. Rachel Gillum 

Dr. Rachel Gillum Jackson is Director, Ethical and Humane Use of Technology at Salesforce, where she works across product, law, policy, and ethics to develop and implement strategic policies to assure Salesforce technologies are used for good and not harm.

Rachel is also an affiliated scholar at Stanford’s Immigration Policy Lab and the author of several academic works including her book, Muslims in a Post-9/11 America: A Survey of Attitudes and Beliefs and Their Implications for U.S. National Security Policy, which explores how government counterterrorism and surveillance policies can alienate the country’s most integrated Muslims and become counterproductive to national security.

Rachel previously worked alongside former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as a Senior Director at RiceHadleyGates LLC, where she and the team assisted CEOs and senior executives at major tech companies meet key geopolitical challenges. Prior to that, Rachel worked as an intelligence analyst.

Rachel is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project. She is the Co-Founder and former Co-Director of Truman’s diversity initiative, aimed at supporting and advancing underrepresented minorities in the international security profession. Rachel is also an Advisory Committee Member for the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, a program at Duke University aimed to increase diversity within the Political Science discipline by providing a pipeline to graduate school and the professorate for under-represented minority students.

Rachel received her doctorate and master’s degrees from Stanford University and her bachelors at the University of Washington in Seattle.