Rachel E. Brooks

Rachel E. Brooks

United States of America

Rachel E. Brooks is a Rotary peace fellow at the University of Bradford in West Yorkshire, UK where she is pursuing an MA in international relations and security studies. Prior to her Rotary peace fellowship, Rachel managed social impact and experiential learning programs for the Center for Business, Government & Society at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Before her role at Dartmouth, she spent two years on Jeju Island, South Korea teaching English to young women and North Korean defectors with the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright Program and then served as chief coordinator of Fulbright Korea’s onboarding program. She now serves as a Fulbright U.S. student alumni ambassador as part of a group of about fifteen Fulbright alumni from different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, states, fields of study, and institutions chosen to serve as recruiters and spokespersons for the program. A first-generation college graduate and native of Virginia, USA, Rachel earned her BA with honors from William & Mary as a Sharpe community scholar and honors fellow. Rachel continued learning with certificates in German and Spanish from Dartmouth College’s Rassias Center for World Languages & Culture and Korean from Korea University. She holds TEFL/TESOL certification and is an FSA credential level II candidate with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).