Instructor

A California native, Rachel earned a bachelor’s degree from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts before defecting to New York to earn her MFA at Columbia University. She’s been a producer on six feature films, such as Space Station 76,Super Dark Times, and Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, which was nominated for a Grammy and won the Producer’s Guild Award for Best Documentary in 2012. After two decades of producing she turned her focus to screenwriting, and was awarded the Science in Cinema Fellowship from SF Film and was a quarter-finalist for the Nicholl. Her teaching experience includes being a mentor at Columbia, a lecturer at Fairfield University, and an adjunct professor at USC, where three of her students went on to win Academy Awards.