Rachel Moynihan

Policy Advisor, North American Representational Office @United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

WA, US

UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, works to:End preventable maternal deathEnd the unmet need for family planningEnd gender-based violence and harmful practices against women and girls like child marriage and female genital mutilation.UNFPA does this by:Securing reproductive health care and supplies for women and young people in more than 150 countries.Providing life-saving help for pregnant women, especially the one million facing life-threatening complications each month.Ensuring reliable access to modern contraceptives for some 20 million women.Fighting to end gender-based violence, which affects 1 in 3 women.Campaigning for the 70 million girls who face marriage before 18 in the next five years.Advocating the end of female genital mutilation, which harms 3 million girls yearly.Delivering safe birth supplies, dignity kits and other life-saving products to survivors of conflicts and disasters.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

Advance Studies Diploma

University of Virginia

Bachelor's Degree

George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government

Master's Degree