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Rachel Birnam is passionate about bridging the gap between pop culture and advocacy and furthering complex representations of women of color on screen. She is the Cultural & Entertainment Partnerships Director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) where she supports NDWA's efforts to leverage the power of culture to change how society perceives and treats people who do domestic work. Rachel manages NDWA's engagement with the entertainment industry to further domestic worker representation in film & TV. Prior to NDWA, Rachel led social impact campaigns for issue driven films and TV shows, leveraging entertainment media to address a variety of social issues, from ending LGBTQ+ conversion therapy, to the death penalty’s disproportionate effect on communities of color. She is a graduate of UC San Diego with a B.A. in Literature/Cultural Studies. Originally from Oakland, she currently resides in Los Angeles.