Rachel was gifted a nuclear tribe with an appreciation for the natural world and had the opportunity to travel internationally from a young age. This, coupled with access to acres of land inhabited only by the wild things of the Texas Hill Country, made for a fairly multifaceted adolescence and cultivated a life-long love of exploring the outdoors all over the world. 

After graduating with a degree in Marine Biology from Texas A&M - Corpus Christi and getting a “real job”, she very quickly realized that a nine to five under fluorescent lights was definitely not for her. So, she did what many conflicted young adults do and joined the Peace Corps. Serving as a Coastal Resources Management Volunteer in the Philippines solidified the realization that humans will only protect what they love and only love what they understand. It was in this space that her career in environmental education truly began, and since then it has shown no signs of slowing. 

Following service, she took a solo sojourn through southeast Asia before settling back in Houston’s 5th Ward neighborhood, her birthplace. While living in the big city she worked simultaneously as a Yoga Instructor for Harris County Senior Citizens Programs and a Horticulture Program Assistant for post-adjudicated youth within the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department. A series of events in 2017 caused yet another reevaluation of purpose and place, and she soon found herself in the national parks of northern Virginia and California teaching outdoor environmental science education once more. Upon ending her seasonal work she decided to tackle another of her life’s goals, to regenerate her family’s farm in Brenham, Texas. However, COVID had other plans for all of us and she found herself teaching at Earth Native Wilderness School where she learned the powerful pedagogy of Coyote Mentoring and Deep Nature Connection.

She’s now returned to the family land where she operates Sea Green Collective and hopes to spread awareness for the necessity of diversity, equity and inclusion in the outdoors, social and emotional learning and how vital they are to our relationship with our fellow humans and the natural world. When she isn’t on the farm she’s most likely on some body of water riding a board with a fin attached to it, scheming on the next trip around the world, or nose deep in a thick sci-fi book.