Rachel has worked with Ming-Ai (London) Institute, Black Cultural Archives and the Soho CCC. She is primarily interested in stories of migration, conflict, loss and love; questions and applications of community development today; global & local histories and education. She sharpened her teeth as an actor-writer-organiser with Yellow Earth, NYT, the Fringe and at St Andrews, where she studied English literature. Born in Kent, and raised in a thoroughly British Chinese chippy and two takeaways, her natural habitat is among words, her second habitat the sites where family meals were spun.