Rachel is a Iñupiat/Norwegian/Sami woman from Utqiagvik (Alaska) and works in social justice film and digital media writer/director/producer. Rachel was a Producer and Impact Producer on In My Blood It Runs and a consultant director on Burn. She has directed/produced 8 documentaries, 2 short dramas and 13 episodes for Television; she is a 2009 alumni of the Sundance Institute Ford Fellowship for her Iñupiaq Fantasy Trilogy and short film. Her history of the Iñupiaq documentary series was the first all First Nation's produced and directed history series in the United States. She also works in education reform and is a cultural safety consultant in Australia and the USA, leading holistic culturally safe and responsive practice in education, film, arts and media, government, health and corporate sectors. Rachel is married to and works with former land rights lawyer and social justice advocate and filmmaker, David Selvarajah Vadiveloo, and together they have three joyful children. She is the oldest daughter of Debby and George Edwardson.