Rachel Pak

Rachel Pak is a Government Innovation Fellow with the Safety & Justice team working on community-based public safety. This year, Rachel is supporting Oakland, California and St. Paul, Minnesota to test the development of new measures of safety informed by resident experience. Previously at the GPL, Rachel supported the Children & Families team to strengthen home visiting programs for families with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Her work focused 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.