Rachel Marcuse, Executive Director

Rachel completed a BA Honours in Sociology at McGill University in 2006 and moved back to her home town of Vancouver. She has worked as a freelance facilitator and for several non-profits, training organizations in anti-oppression, facilitation skills and meaningful youth engagement. Rachel has also worked as the Volunteer and Operations Manager for the Vancouver Fringe Festival where she recruited and trained 450 volunteers and ran the operations for the largest theatre festival in BC. She ran the 2003 Youth Health Fairs a co-partnership between the BCCDC and Watari, where she collaborated with numerous service providers and street-involved youth. She chaired the board of directors of the Daily Publications Society, the most syndicated student newspaper in Canada, and founded the organization that implemented the first ethical purchasing policy for a Student Union in Canada. Rachel has also worked in student politics; suicide intervention and health promotion; in art for social change and much more. In 2007, Rachel was in Argentina, doing fundraising and communications with The Working World, an NGO that gives micro-credit loans to worker-run cooperatives. She has recently worked with the NDP both provincially and federally and joined the COPE staff team in March, 2008 after being elected to the executive in May, 2007. Rachel co-managed the 2008 COPE campaign which was widely believed to be one of COPE's strongest and most creative campaigns ever.

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