Rachel Foster

Biography

Rachel Foster is the co-founder and chair of World Without Exploitation (WorldWE). Previously, an advocate at Sanctuary for Families, a settlement house community organizer, attorney and board officer at Brooklyn Legal Services, and a board member at various non-profits.
She has been honored by United Neighborhood Houses and Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. Rachel was Campaign Director for New Abolitionists. She was an adjunct professor at NYU’s School of Social Work and has given university lectures in the US and abroad.
As President of Heights Advisors, her social impact development includes building the first ground up domestic violence shelter in the country where families can exit abusive situations with their pets and two transitional family shelters, each over 160 units housing 500 individuals.
In 2016, she co-founded Brooklyn Cat Cafe, a non-profit animal shelter, adoption center, and low-cost veterinary clinic with over 130,000 visitors and 13,000 adoptions.