Rachel Streitfeld is Executive Producer of State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash and Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju.

Streitfeld joined CNN Worldwide in 2006 after interning in the Washington, DC bureau, and quickly became a presidential campaign field producer. She’s covered every national election since 2008, including presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and was a campaign embed following New Hampshire’s Republican primary and Mitt Romney in 2012.

Streitfeld has also covered Capitol Hill, the White House and breaking news stories from the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 to the Paris terror attacks in 2015. She later transitioned to producing for The Lead with Jake Tapper  in 2015 and joined State of the Union as a senior producer in 2018, where she also works on CNN special coverage and Dana Bash’s quarterly longform interview series Being. She is the recipient of two Emmy awards.

Streitfeld graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and hails from Dallas, TX.  Streitfeld lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and two children.