Rachel Svetanoff

Rachel Svetanoff is an award-winning youth activist, futurist and social entrepreneur with a history of supporting the SDGs by mobilizing resources for over 100 projects with 116 organizations across 37 countries. In her entrepreneurial pursuits, Rachel founded the SDG advocacy youth organization Global Futurist Initiative™, the community development consortium Project Energy for Life Cameroon, and her consulting practice. She has taken on many roles in youth advocacy on behalf of and for various institutions, most recently as a member of the Major Group for Children and Youth for the UN Summit of the Future. Other related appointments include United Nations Association of the USA’s Global Goals Ambassadors program, IMF, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Foreign Policy for America, AFS Youth Assembly, UNESCO Youth, YOUNGA Forum, International Youth Conference, and UN SDSN. As a consultant, Rachel worked for institutions such as UNICEF USA, Johnson & Johnson, Fashion Community Foundation, and Friends U.S. of the Global Fund to foster strategic partnerships for advancing their sustainability and social impact objectives. Rachel currently holds a Visiting Associateship of Policy & Practice at the University of Notre Dame Pulte Institute for Global Development where she is conducting U.S. policy research on the SDGs. Born and raised in Indiana, Rachel received her BS in Chemistry and MBA from Purdue University and her MS in Global Health from Notre Dame.