Rachel is from Auburn, New York, and recently graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in creative writing. She has been enthralled by the art of storytelling and using creative writing to amplify the voices of others from a very young age. Rachel started at 826 Boston as a volunteer and interned with the 826 Boston publishing team while finishing her undergraduate degree. She has worked on various publications, such as lifestyle magazines and blogs, and was the editor-in-chief of Her Campus Emerson, a digital publication that amplified the stories of women-identifying and nonbinary-identifying writers. In her free time, Rachel enjoys writing fiction, pitching freelance articles to various outlets, reading literary fiction and memoirs, hanging out with her dog, and spending time in the sun.