Rebecca Wexler is an independent documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the Yale Visual Law Project.  Her research interests include interactions between politics and technology, with a particular focus on computer hackers. She holds an M. Phil in the history and philosophy of science from Cambridge University (2006, Rausing

Dissertation Prize) where she studied visual culture in science on a Gates-Cambridge fellowship. She holds a B.A. from Harvard College (2005).  She has worked on documentaries distributed by PBS/American Experience (Grand Central), HBO (Taxi to the Dark Side), VH1 (Sex! The Revolution), and Verve (Rock Docs), and has produced, directed, filmed, and edited documentaries distributed by the Yale University Art Gallery, La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the Long Wharf

Theatre and the Provincetown International Film Festival. She recently completed work as Associate Producer on a three-hour North American broadcast PBS documentary about Forgiveness directed by Helen Whitney, and is Directing/Producing/Editing a documentary for the Yale Art Gallery about the D’mba masked dance performance from Guinea, West Africa.