Rachel Marcuse
Chief Operating Officer
She/her/hers
Rachel (she/her) is passionate about helping people do their work even better. She is former Vice President of People Operations (HR) of Tom Steyer entities including NextGen America, which ran the largest democratic SuperPac in the U.S. In that role, Rachel scaled the organization from 20 to nearly 1000 employees. Prior to her work at NextGen America, Rachel worked at Outbrain, where she led organizational development and grew the company from 90 to 500 staff and 2 to 14 cities globally.
Rachel has trained hundreds of people and organizations in leadership and employee development skills on topics ranging from management workshops for new leaders to active listening and effective interviewing. Previous to her people ops work, Rachel was the Executive Director of a Vancouver municipal political party and was the youngest person in Canadian history to run a major city election campaign. She holds an MS in Organizational Change from the New School for Public Engagement and an honors BA from McGill University. On weekends, Rachel spends time with her partner and two small kids and teaches full force self-defense and personal boundary setting for Impact Bay Area.