Project Manager, Microsoft Democracy Forward Initiative
Rachel Brooks is a risk intelligence professional focused on curbing digital threats to democracy. She specializes in analyzing disinformation, hate speech, and extremism and is passionate about programs uplifting access to trustworthy information. Currently project manager at Microsoft’s Democracy Forward Initiative, Rachel supports the company’s information integrity, journalism, and media literacy workstreams. Rachel served as an intelligence analyst at Concentric where she authored hundreds of intelligence products assessing open source and dark web threats facing clients and designed trainings on analytical writing. Rachel also researched foreign disinformation campaigns targeting democracies with Army Cyber Command’s Virtual Student Federal Service and Rotary International’s Peace Fellowship. She served two years as a Fulbright grantee on Jeju Island, South Korea. Rachel lives in the Seattle area with her partner and sits on the Pacific Coast Analyst Roundtable board. She earned her B.A. from William & Mary and M.A. from England’s University of Bradford.