About Rachel

Rachel has ten years of experience and a diverse background in water resource management, environmental law and policy, quantitative analysis, and community education, engagement, and outreach. Her educational background is focused on water quality, hydrology, and data analysis and visualization. As a consultant at Raftelis, Rachel has worked with a wide range of municipal services, including stormwater, wastewater, drinking water, and solid waste. She supports local governments on projects related to stormwater program development and review, stormwater utility development, financial modeling, analysis, and rate development, geospatial analysis, affordability, and climate resilience. Rachel’s primary expertise lies at the intersection of financial sustainability and climate resilience, specifically focused on long-term financial planning, rate setting, decision analysis, and stormwater program development. Her professional background in science education and environmental policy further enables her to communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholder groups and governing bodies.