Rachel currently manages the Landscape Recovery Project, which supports 860+ hectares of land across the Chew Valley to be managed for nature. She joined Avon Needs Trees in 2022, leading on the creation of Ed Woods alongside completing her MSc in Sustainability and Behaviour Change at the Centre for Alternative Technology. Her dissertation focused on the impacts of tree-planting on individuals, understood through listening to and analysing people’s stories.

Previously Rachel has worked in the homelessness sector and across youth empowerment projects, and believes that social justice and the climate and nature crises are inextricably intertwined.

When not working, Rachel can probably be found somewhere outdoors, perhaps camping, swimming or foraging.