Rachel Cassandra is a freelance writer and designer based in San Francisco, CA. She graduated from Wesleyan University where she studied psychology, sociology and creative writing. Since graduating she's lived in Seattle, Tucson, Alaska, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Indonesia, where she was a Darmasiswa scholar, studying traditional crafts. She has written for Bitch Media, the SFist, Running Times, and Narratively, and she writes regularly for Juxtapoz.