Erakat graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 (Phi Beta Kappa) and was a University of California Berkeley Human Rights Center Summer Fellow in 2003. Finally, she completed her L.L.M at Georgetown University Law Center (with distinction and Dean’s List) in 2012.
She is an activist and writer, as well as a specialist in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, refugee law, humanitarian law, national security law, and social justice. Erakat is one of six core figures who launched Jadaliyya in 2010 (an ezine in English, Arabic, and French that is an initiative of the non-profit Arab Studies Institute (Applied Science International) in Washington, District of Columbia and Beirut, Lebanon). Erakat has "served as legal counsel to the House of Representatives Oversight Committee" and has previously taught at Georgetown University.
From 2012-2014, she was a Freedman Fellow with Temple University Beasley School of Law.
Radio To The Point: "A New Shot at Peace Talks: Will it be Different this Time?" KCRW, July 31, 2013. Beyond Beijing: "Palestine seeking statehood bid in United Nations.” China Radio International, November 21, 2012.
She currently serves on the board of the Institute for Policy Studies, is a member of the Board of Directors for the Transport-Arab Research Institute, and is a policy advisor with the First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Shabaka Network.
