Rachel Carle

Rachel Carle

Individual Giving Officer

Rachel Carle is our Individual Giving Officer, engaging ActionAid’s community of grassroots supporters and foundation partners.

Prior to joining ActionAid, Rachel worked in fundraising for a global service and development program. She also spent one year working in Kampong Speu, Cambodia, supporting a community-based organization for small-scale agriculture, land rights, and climate change adaptation.

Rachel holds a Bachelor of Arts in Global Development Studies and English from the University of Virginia through which she additionally studied in Indonesia, Nicaragua, and the Netherlands.

POSTS BY Rachel Carle

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Stepping Up for International Climate Justice

May 17, 2019 By

I was one of 1,500 people who packed Cramton Auditorium at Howard University in Washington, D.C., for the final stop of the Sunrise Movement’s “Road to the Green New Deal.” Young people like myself made up the majority of the sold-out crowd. Activists, campaigners, and policy leaders took the stage…

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Cambodia’s Election Demands Our Attention

July 28, 2018 By

On November 8, 2016, I was in Cambodia. That evening, I watched the news broadcast in Khmer – its footage of then President-Elect Trump and commentary on what this new administration might mean for Southeast Asia. My Cambodian friend sat with me at the kitchen table, holding space for my…