Episode Fifteen- Rachel Carroll Rivas

Rachel Carroll Rivas has worked to expose the anti-democratic far-right forces and organize communities to respond to hate activity for the last twenty years. She is currently Interim Director of the Intelligence Project and Deputy Director of Research, Reporting and Analysis at the Southern Poverty Law Center. She has supported rural community organizing and research across the Western U.S., training hundreds of advocates, academics and community leaders in cross-issue movement building and using research analysis of the hard right to inform strategy. Rachel was formerly the Co-Director and Research Director of the Montana Human Rights Network. She has been featured extensively in U.S. news coverage, including NPR and the New York Times for her work countering white nationalism and the anti-government militia movement. She has served on the boards of UpperSeven Law and Montana Conservation Voters. Previously she worked on economic and gender justice with Zero to Five Montana, on progressive state policy and leadership with The Policy Institute, and at the Western Rural Development Center and Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. She has participated in numerous ballot measure efforts and helped manage six successful electoral races in Montana. Rachel's collegiate studies were at North Dakota State, University of Montana, Illinois State and Utah State University.