Rachel DuRose

ABOUT ME

Rachel DuRose grew up in Orlando, Florida. From the age of four to nineteen Rachel was a professional actress in commercials and movies.

Rachel moved to Los Angeles for college, attending the University of California, Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA with degrees in political science and public affairs. While in school, Rachel worked in the nonprofit and research sectors at organizations such as Libraries Without Borders and the Global Lab for Research in Action.

As an opinion columnist for UCLA’s student newspaper, the Daily Bruin, she wrote about the first-generation college student experience and the Los Angeles housing crisis. Through this role, Rachel developed a passion for journalism.

Upon graduating Rachel started working at Business Insider as a careers fellow and then junior reporter, covering the workplace, hiring, and executive leadership.

She left her role at Insider to become a Future Perfect fellow at Vox. As a fellow, Rachel covered increasingly critical issues such as public health and climate change. Rachel wrote about COVID-19, maternal mortality, lunar junk, alcohol use disorder, and more.

She also ran Vox’s daily newsletter Sentences for two months — covering the biggest headlines of the day, including the SBF trial, the Israel-Hamas war, and elections in South America.

Now Rachel works as an editorial production coordinator at the Harvard Business Review. In this latest role, she’s drafting newsletters, helping launch the organization’s new application, building the newsroom’s first editorial calendar, and posting content across social media channels.

She is also the founder of Boston’s premier fantasy book group, the Boston Fantasy Book Circle, which has more than 200 members and meets each month to discuss a fantasy books of the group’s choosing (past titles include Babel, Heartless Hunter, Jade City, Slewfoot, and The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi).

In her free time Rachel loves to watch F1 and reality television (any Love Island UK fans out there?), draw, paint, and care for her rescue pup.

Find Rachel @durosettastone on Twitter!