Director of Strategy, Operations, and Communications, and Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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Erin Rebhan is director of strategy, operations, and communications at the RAND School of Public Policy. She leads a team of operations and communications professionals whose work spans school-wide strategic planning, internal and external communications, and process design, and serves as principal writer and advisor for executive communications from the dean's office. She oversees the school's marketing and outreach and led its recent rebrand.
Rebhan played a key role in launching the D.C. campus—where she serves as senior lead—and the Master of National Security Policy program in 2024. More recently, she supported the launch of the Master of Technology Policy and Master of Policy Analysis programs, including accreditation work with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV). Previously, she led strategic communications for RAND's National Security and Homeland Security Research Divisions as a core member of their leadership teams. She has taught extensively on translating complex analysis into accessible content for decisionmakers and the public.
Before joining RAND, Rebhan was research communications manager at the Center for Naval Analyses, where she developed a course on effective research communication for analysts. She has held visiting faculty positions at the Catholic University of America and Claremont McKenna College, and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
A published author, Rebhan holds a Ph.D. in medieval and early modern Spanish literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a B.A. in Spanish and geology from St. Norbert College.
Ph.D. in medieval and early modern Spanish literature, University of California, Santa Barbara; B.A. in Spanish and geology, St. Norbert College
Spanish; Portuguese
