雷切尔黄金导致ACEEE的Utilities程序。她的研究主要集中在国家节能政策，公用事业监管和费率厘定，资源规划和公用事业部门的能源效率项目。雷切尔在2018年加入ACEEE，并且还担任了联邦政策分析师，助理董事二〇〇九年至2011年。

Prior to joining ACEEE, Rachel worked in Rocky Mountain Institute’s electricity and buildings practices, where she advised public utility commissions and utilities on power sector transformation and led multi-stakeholder collaborations on solar soft costs, customer DER adoption, post-storm system transformation, and rate design. Rachel was the project manager for the first eLab Summit. Before that, she served as a member of Opower’s regulatory team, leading California market development and providing strategy, sales training, and regulatory analysis in western states. Rachel has consulted for the National Park Service and the UC Berkeley Labor Center, and she interned at the California Public Utilities Commission.

雷切尔拥有加州大学伯克利分校公共政策和科学的生物学和环境研究从布兰代斯大学本科的高手。