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Here is a link to Rachel's podcast.

In 2005, Rachel graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN in English Literature. She has also taken classes in Italian and Greek. She had the good fortune of being able to study abroad in Rome for the Winter Semester, 2004. Click here to see those photographs: Rachel's semester abroad in Italy.

She then spent several years living in Burlington, Vermont, first working as a section manager at the Burlington Barnes & Noble bookstore and then working in a local hospital. She has done some copy writing for a marketing company and has done some book critiquing and some book editing for her dad's publishing company.

From 2008 to 2010, Rachel attended the University of Iowa, graduating in May 2010 with a master's degree in Library and Information Science. She accepted a job in Lawrence, Kansas, at a public library.

She is engaged to Aaron Smalter, and they are planning a September 18, 2010 wedding. Here is their wedding website. Aaron is studying for his PhD in computer science at the University of Kansas. Rachel has known Aaron since high school, but didn't begin dating him until she came back to the Midwest from Vermont.