Rachel has over a decade of experience working in the field of removal defense. She currently serves as a managing attorney at Safe Passage Project, where she works with an incredible staff of attorneys and pro bono volunteers to provide free legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children facing removal proceedings in New York. Prior to her work at Safe Passage Project, she worked as a public defender with the Brooklyn Defender Services’ New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP) team, representing detained and non-detained immigrants in complex removal defense cases.

Rachel previously spent four years working for the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition (now the Amica Center for Immigrant’s Rights) in Washington, DC, first as a staff attorney providing removal defense representation, pro bono mentorship, and Know Your Rights presentations for noncitizens in ICE detention, then as a senior attorney counseling local defense attorneys on the immigration consequences of criminal offenses for immigrants. She has co-authored law journal articles on defending clients against unfounded ICE gang allegations in immigration bond hearings and on the profound human costs of deeply inhumane ICE detention policies.

Rachel received her J.D. with a Certificate in Refugee and Humanitarian Studies from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2013, where she interned with the ACLU National Prison Project and the Women’s Refugee Commission. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Swarthmore College.