Rachel is a researcher and translator based in Brooklyn. Her work examines state-corporate crimes and environmental justice. She is also a polyglot, with fluency in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, and Chinese, all of which inform both the breadth and depth of her interests.
EDUCATIONMA, International Security, INSTITUT BARCELONA D'ESTUDIS INTERNACIONALS (IBEI)
BA, Middle Eastern Studies, BARD COLLEGE
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Fluency Level: Native Speaker
Translations:
English ↔ Spanish
English ↔French
English ↔ Italian
English ↔ Arabic
English ↔ Chinese -
Fluency Level: Native Speaker
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Spanish ↔English
Spanish ↔ French
Spanish ↔ Italian
Spanish ↔ Arabic -
Fluency Level: Proficient, C1
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French ↔ English
French ↔ Spanish
French ↔ Italian
French ↔ Arabic -
Fluency High Intermediate, B2
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Italian ↔English
Italian ↔Spanish
Italian ↔ French -
Fluency Level: Proficient, C1
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Arabic ↔ English
Arabic ↔ Spanish
Arabic ↔ French -
Fluency Level: High Intermediate, B2
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Chinese ↔ English
Environmental Justice Atlas, Kalagadi Manganese Mining in Kalahari, South Africa (2026)
Human Rights Radio, Ep. 23 Migration, Law, and Food Business (2021), a segment on street food vendors in New York City.
RESEARCHBusiness as Usual: Corporate Complicity in Crimes Against Humanity - Traced maritime shipments of jet fuel from Valero Energy to the Israeli Occupational Forces with an aim to assess whether Valero’s significant material support could implicate the company as criminally liable under the Rome Statue.
Aesthetics of Excess: Digital Culture and Consumption - From Labubus to Matcha lattes the paper investigates how algorithmically driven consumption shapes abundance and scarcity across resource supply chains.
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