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Rachel is a documentary filmmaker and multimedia artist. She is co-founder and Executive Director of Storyline, an organization that builds power with story and strategy. At Storyline, we find the right medium for each story, crafting content in film, photography, audio, theater, installation, and emerging forms. We specialize in creating participatory documentaries; an inclusive and collaborative process that engages communities in designing and carrying out the collection and dissemination of their own story. In addition to producing the short film and exhibition Water Warriors, about a community fighting to protect their water (POV), recent projects Rachel's co-directed include: the participatory web documentary and exhibition Sandy Storyline about Hurricane Sandy (Tribeca Film Festival’s inaugural Storyscapes Award); Sanctuary, an immersive sound and performance project commissioned by the Working Theater about the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan; and 28th Amendment: Housing is a Human Right, a sound and photo project about the housing crisis. Rachel has produced content with the award-winning national oral history project StoryCorps and EarSay, Inc., and was an associate producer on Incite Picture’s Young Lakota (Independent Lens). She has directed dozens of short films for organizations like AFSCME and The John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She is also a sound recordist for film and radio, including most recently Knock Down The House (Netflix) and To The End (Sundance).