Rachel is a Filipina-American, award-winning filmmaker/writer/actor, passionate about telling stories that truly matter. She is additionally an enthusiastic, queer, outspoken advocate for mental health education and destigmatization. Notably, she won a student Emmy at the 2013 College Television Awards, for her web series, The Sub Club. Her short films, Maple’s Tree and Bicultural, were official selections in quite a few film festivals around the world, including Outfest, BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+, and others. Recently, her TV scripts have advanced as finalists in the 2018 NBC Writers on the Verge program, a semi-finalist in the 2019 Sundance Episodic Lab and a finalist in the 2020 Sundance Makers Lab. Her feature film script for Violet, Violet won the Runner-Up award in the 2020 Script Pipeline Screenwriting Contest and landed her as a finalist in the 2020 Austin Film Festival Virtual Pitch Competition.   As an actress, Rachel's TV credits include a guest star on NBC's Chicago Fire, most recently recurring in BET’s Games People Play as 'Susie Q', and a great role on Netflix’s Atypical, Season 3.