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A graduate of UCLA with a Masters in Education and a personal survivor of human trafficking, Rachel has over 12 years’ experience in teaching, mentoring, corporate training, curriculum writing and public speaking. She has educated and inspired a wide range of audiences including teens, social service providers, churches, teachers, college students, law enforcement and lawmakers.
Since 2012, Rachel and the Sowers Team have reached over 150,000 live audience members and millions more through numerous media outlets including New Day Morning Show on CNN, Inside with Chris Cuomo: Anyone’s Daughter on HLN, The T.D. Jakes Show, The New York Times Upfront Magazine and ABC’s Newsmakers.
Rachel was honored by Congressman Ed Royce of California’s 39th district and Los Angeles Supervisor Don Knabe for her leadership and trafficking prevention efforts. And most recently, Rachel was appointed to the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking for a term of two years.
She is the lead author of the nation's most widely used sex trafficking intervention curriculum Ending The Game (Journal Of Women and Criminal Justice, 2021) as well as The Cool Aunt Series, a sex trafficking prevention course for teens.
Ending The Game (ETG) educates and empowers sex trafficking victims by providing a structure and framework to uncover harmful psychological coercion (a.k.a. “The Game”) that victims may have been subjected to during their exploitation.
The Cool Aunt Series: Sex Trafficking Prevention uses engaging and age-appropriate cinema, storytelling, lecture and questions to open awareness and a path to action should the situation warrant it.
Rachel consults for local and national government, speaks at schools, community groups and at special events, and also participates as a subject matter expert on panels and for the media.
I’m blown away. It felt so real, like something straight out of my life. It’s phenomenal.
This needs to be in every school for every single teen.
Rachel’s vulnerability when she speaks allows others to feel more comfortable with sharing their own experiences.
I am a mother and a mental health professional working in the anti-trafficking field and this series is so well put together. I went through the series prior to having one of my youth go through it and I am impressed. Rachel delivers this information on sex trafficking so gracefully and in a trauma informed way. Thank you for putting this series together, I highly recommend!
This was so well done. The Cool Aunt series should be shown everywhere! Every teacher, coach, youth leader or relative of a young girl should sit down and work through this series. Thank you Rachel for always being so transparent, authentic and powerful! This is going to make a difference for all those that watch!