Rachel Harrison Gordon is a candidate for an MFA/MBA at NYU Tisch/Stern and a Sundance 2020 Blackhouse Fellow. Her interest in storytelling evolved through pursuits of perspectives in journalism and government. She has studied people through quantitative behavioral data and their stories and hopes to create inclusive projects, from features to music videos, that highlight the different ways people come of age. Her work challenges expectations of race, family and addiction.

Prior to NYU, Rachel served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow for the Obama Administration, focusing on Veterans and their experience returning home. She worked as a data analyst within the Consumer Insights Group at The New York Times, analyzing how people across the world engage with news platforms. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering where she studied Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.

Broken Bird (2020) is Rachel’s first film.