Rachel Jacoby is a Highland Park resident and recent graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School where she concentrated in Social and Urban Policy. Previously, she worked in the gun violence prevention movement at Giffords and served as an English teacher on a Fulbright grant in Malaysia. Rachel has organized with March For Our Lives nationally and in Illinois. Most recently, Rachel led the grassroots organizing effort in support of the Protect Illinois Communities Act, making Illinois the 9th state to ban assault weapons in January of 2023.