Rachel Wahl is also the director of the Good Life Political Project at the Karsh Institute of Democracy and a fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. Her research focuses on learning through public deliberation between people on opposing sides of political divides. Her prior research focused on efforts by community activists to change police officers’ beliefs and behavior through activism and education, which is the subject of her first book, Just Violence: Torture and Human Rights in the Eyes of the Police (Stanford University Press, 2017). Her research has been funded by donors such as the Spencer Foundation, National Academy of Education, the Carnegie Corporation, and the federal Institute of International Education.