Rachel Pak is a Government Innovation Fellow supporting Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services on strengthening home visiting programs for families. Her work focuses on strengthening family resiliency and healthy child development before crises emerge.

Prior to the GPL, Rachel worked in media relations for the Tahirih Justice Center, an immigration advocacy organization, where she worked with immigrant survivors to write trauma-informed stories to support policy advocacy. She also spent two years in Guatemala leading communications at Pueblo a Pueblo and Semilla Nueva, where she headed efforts to center communities' voices in external communications.

Rachel holds a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park.