Rachel serves as a trusted advisor to clients by providing strategic legal advice and developing immigration strategies for program management. She partners with clients to provide advance planning for the mobilization of their workforces and helps them use immigration as a tool for talent acquisition and retention. Through her immigration experience, Rachel has a keen ability to anticipate evolving immigration trends and identify and mitigate risks for clients. She advises a diverse client base on a variety of corporate immigration matters, including nonimmigrant visas, consular processing, permanent residence and citizenship.

Rachel’s representative experience ranges from global Fortune 500 companies to boutique organizations and private client matters. Born and raised in Iowa, she is deeply connected to the agricultural community specifically and understands the needs of the agribusiness sector as they relate to immigration, successfully representing large, corporate production companies in the space. While she has stayed close to her Iowa roots, she has also built a robust presence in the New York City metropolitan area over the course of two decades, practicing in a wide range of sectors, such as financial services, fintech, legal, consulting, fragrances/cosmetics, manufacturing, professional sailing, wind energy and the nonprofit space.

Rachel is committed to quality service when partnering with her clients to solve their greatest challenges and also in her efforts as a team leader. She believes her team members are some of her greatest assets and aims to cultivate a collaborative, positive internal culture that carries outward to, in turn, produce the highest level of service to clients. She also frequently leads immigration workshops for students at an array of universities across the United States, sharing insights on careers in immigration law, immigration options for international students and more.