Rachel Wessler

Rachel Wessler is currently a policy analyst at Child Care Aware of America. She previously served as a Fellow at the Albert Shanker Institute in Washington, D.C. while she completed her master’s program in Educational Transformation at Georgetown University. Rachel was an ECE teacher for five years in Washington, DC where she developed a passion for early childhood teacher professional development and home visiting as a tool for relationship building between schools and the students and families that they serve. Most recently, she was a Curriculum Specialist and then a Center Director at a Child Development Center in Washington, DC. She has a B.A. in Psychology and Political Science with a minor in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Delaware.