Rachel Kinbar

Touwslager (Ropemaker)

Rachel Jerusha Kinbar (they/zey/all) is Beautiful Trouble's Director of Operations. They are actively engaged in building a new commons while exploring what it means to be human, heal lineage, and honor ancestors. Zey are working for collective liberation as a local community and mutual aid organizer with Central Florida Mutual Aid and Orlando DSA, an Alternative Economy Fellow with the Center for Biological Diversity and Shareable, and as the program/project manager for the Jews of Color Mishpacha Project. They are also a writer, gardener, artist, half of noise/poetry duo Unfade, and co-editor of Bonk! magazine. Fun facts: Rachel holds two degrees in Jewish history (and a graduate certificate in publishing & editing), is a dual citizen of The Netherlands and the so-called U.S., lived for 11 years in Tallinn, Estonia, is married to a Belgian musician, and is parenting a teenager who plays trumpet. Perhaps most importantly of all, there is a cat named Noodle.