As a Development Associate, Rachel supports fundraising opportunities at FSC I&P by building relationships with partners and conducting funder research. FSC I&P is a 501(c)3 fundraising organization that is mission-aligned with the Forest Stewardship Council, the world’s leading and most trusted voluntary forest certification system.

Rachel’s prior work experience spans the environmental sector from serving as an AmeriCorps Communications and Operations Fellow at an environmental nonprofit, teaching fifth grade earth science at a Bronx, NY charter school and interning at the City of Palo Alto’s Zero Waste department. She also has a strong mixed-methods research background, having studied salt-stress in plants at Stanford, Indigenous tourism in Panama, the deep chlorophyll maximum in river plumes at Barnard College of Columbia University (B.A. Environmental Science, 2020), and best practices for community engagement during tidal and wave energy at the University of Washington (Master’s in Marine Affairs, 2024). For fun, she cooks vegan meals, plays with her toy poodle Maple, and reads prolifically.

Favorite SFS Memory: Hard to pick just one! I loved hiking to Wizard Beach in the rain on Bastimentos Island during one of my weekends off & touring Oreba Chocolate as part of my directed research project on Indigenous tourism. Also snorkeling in fish nursery habitat near the base of mangroves and observing all the Acropora cervicornis (staghorn coral) in the reefs. And getting dive certified with a bunch of my classmates!