Rachel is the Senior Director of U.S. Government Strategy, where she advances PAI’s goals of universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights and works to ensure that perspectives from a diversity of voices from low- and middle-income countries are centered in decision-making processes in Congress and the administration.

A trusted foreign policy leader with bipartisan results in legislation, appropriations, and U.S. policy and strategy documents, Rachel is an accomplished consensus builder, adept at collaborating with civil society and government stakeholders to drive impactful change. Her body of work includes journal articles, op-eds, blogs, keynote speeches, panel discussions, and TV appearances. She has dedicated her career to supporting the most marginalized and centering the voices of women, adolescent girls, children and youth in policy advocacy. She brings more than a decade of experience in U.S. policy advocacy with proven results representing organizations as diverse as ChildFund International, the American Red Cross, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and the U.S. Department of State.

She received her master’s degree in International Development Studies from the George Washington University and her bachelor’s in Sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She serves on the Board of Directors at For Love of Children (FLOC), a non-profit that provides out-of-classroom educational services to D.C.’s under-resourced youth. Rachel lives in Washington, D.C., where she and her husband are proud to be foster parents.