Rachel Shaheen

As Development Coordinator for the Social Innovation Forum (SIF), Rachel is the primary Salesforce administrator and data manager for the staff team, helping to drive fundraising and community building. Rachel also helps produce materials for external audiences, including program summaries, fact sheets, and the Social Innovation Forum’s Report Card.

Rachel joined the SIF team in 2014 as a program assistant and transitioned into her current role in October 2015. She graduated from Northeastern University in 2014 with a BA in Political Science as well as minors in Social Entrepreneurship and International Affairs. Through Northeastern’s co-op program, she worked at Root Cause as the operations assistant in 2011 and at the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, first as the legislative and public policy intern and later serving as interim manager of the agency for four months. Rachel was involved with the Social Enterprise Institute at Northeastern University, through which she partnered with South African colleagues in Cape Town to provide business consulting to the South African Red Cross Society and to a micro-entrepreneur working to open a jazz lounge and restaurant in his township. Rachel is excited to bring her experience back to the Social Innovation Forum team and to support SIF as the organization grows.