Rachel has been a professional Social Worker for 18 years and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in North Carolina for 12 years. Since childhood, she has been working to alleviate suffering, stop injustice, nurture belonging, and spread compassion. Her social work roots took hold when she was a child and involved in community service projects with family and friends. From a young age, she was deeply bothered by the discrepancy in living conditions and access to resources and opportunities that were afforded to some and not others. Early steps in her social work training to address these inequities centered around work in schools and with Latin American immigrant communities in the Triangle region of North Carolina. Her clinical work began as a bilingual home-based Family Support Worker providing intensive, short- and long-term support to pregnant women and mothers with children ages 0-5. She transitioned to school-based social work in 2008. Over the course of 18 years, she has served diverse populations of children and families, schools, and communities as a School Social Worker, School-Based Mental Health Clinician, Parent Advocate, Mentor-Advocate, Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Intervention specialist, SEL Program & Curriculum Developer and Consultant, and Police Department Crisis Counselor. 

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Rachel is engaged in a lifelong commitment to working, personally and professionally, to create a more compassionate world. She believes in personal and collective responsibility for alleviating suffering in the world. She believes that feeling a sense of belonging and loving connection to others is critical for personal and collective wellbeing. And she believes that this work starts within.