Rachael Zafer is a writer, organizer, and consultant who supports justice-oriented organizations, grassroots groups, and creative individuals with building capacity, fostering collaboration, and developing strategic visions for social change. She has spent the past 20 years creating and conspiring with community organizers, artists, writers, and leaders as a facilitator, storyteller, community organizer, and nonprofit leader.
Rachael has worked on projects with dozens of clients around the country, including Interrupting Criminalization, the ACLU, Just Practice Collaborative, Haymarket Books, Penguin Random House, and Loevy + Loevy. She serves on the board of the Ministry Against the Death Penalty, led by Sister Helen Prejean, and is a founding core organizer with Mourning Our Losses, a collective memorial that centers the dignity of people who died in prisons, jails, and immigration facilities.
Rachael is interested in developing politicized community spaces for grief and mourning that acknowledge the past, present, and future harms of the carceral state.