Rachael Chong

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Bio

Rachael Chong won't rest until every professional can volunteer their skills and every nonprofit has access to skilled volunteers. As an investment banker, Rachael was shocked by the lack of opportunities for her to volunteer her professional skills. Frustrated by her inability to serve the greater good while keeping her day job, Rachael left corporate finance to work in microfinance. A year later, Rachael helped start-up BRAC USA, the US affiliate of BRAC, one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the world. At BRAC USA, Rachael created a strategy to effectively mobilize dozens of skills-based volunteers that freed up her and the President & CEO's time to raise $40 million in less than nine months. Rachael also pioneered a program that brought eleven Duke students to the rural Bangladeshi countryside for three months of story collecting. She has a Masters of Public Policy Degree from Duke University and graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College at Columbia University. Born in Australia, Rachael grew up all over Asia. She writes for the Huffington Post.

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