Rachel Barkley is an experienced coalition and community builder at the state and national level. She is the President of RK Barkley Consulting where she helps organizations move forward policies that advance freedom and promote human dignity through coalition building and policy strategy. She is the director of a disability policy reform project, Able Americans, and the executive director of the Alliance for Opportunity, a multi-state project to move 1 million people out of poverty into lives of flourishing.
Previously, Rachel worked as External Relations Senior Advisor for Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), Director of Outreach for the U.S. House of Representatives Conference Chair, and as Director of Coalitions and State Outreach for the largest caucus in Congress. Rachel got her start at a national non-profit for state policy think tanks, the State Policy Network (SPN). She served on the board for a DC charter school start-up and on the advisory council for Pepperdine University School of Public Policy’s American Project.
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