Rachel Valentine

Rachel Valentine hails from the Pacific Northwest, but has lived in central NC for half of her life. Rachel is a preventionist, artist, food producer, and cycle-breaker (parent) currently serving as the executive director of the Orange County Rape Crisis Center. Rachel identifies as a cisgender queer white presenting woman focused on building an empowered constituency of survivors in her community to build collective power and dismantle systems of violence and degradation. Rachel also identifies as a survivor of commercial childhood sexual exploitation and adult sexual assault.  She thinks Alexandria is really dope.