Rachel is a social change strategist and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and Executive Board Chair of Bonfire Women, Inc., a a talent development accelerator for the rising generation of women in the workplace. With her long-time business partner (and Bonfire co-founder), Suzanne Muchin, Rachel is also the host of The Big Payoff, a popular podcast on women at work. She is principal at Mind + Matter Studio, where she focuses on influence strategies for social change. Rachel is passionate about expanding the market for ideas that make the world more beautiful, more equitable, more enlightened or more sustainable. Among Rachel’s earliest entrepreneurial forays was Project 180, an incubator for nonprofit and commercial joint ventures. She’s launched 7 ventures — including several with business partner Suzanne Muchin. Together, Rachel and Suzanne have advised some of America’s most prominent leaders in business, philanthropy, venture capital, sports and academia. Rachel began her career on the design team of MacArthur Foundation “Genius Awards” Program and later, developed and executed initiatives totaling $20M annually as Program Director for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Her baptism in venture capital occurred at Divine Interventures, where she was a Partner in charge of social impact strategy, markets and acquisitions. Rachel has served on many boards and advisory committees, including the TED Conference, The American Center in Paris, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the James Irvine Foundation, Open Society Institute (Soros Funds), The National Endowment for the Arts, Streb Dance Company and Poets House. Rachel is a frequent guest lecturer at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and has also guest lectured at New York University and University of Chicago.