Rachel Harmon

Biography

Rachel V. Harmon, Champaign, is a senior at Cornell University majoring in Industrial and Labor Relations. Before college, she was an AmeriCorps volunteer as a reading tutor at an all-black rural elementary school in the Mississippi Delta, an experience which - like some of her own - has fueled her motivation to study social and economic policies and their effects on socioeconomic mobility. Rachel's honors thesis relates to strategies for economic justice for low-income Mississippians. She has won many awards for scholarship, was an intern for the Southern Education Foundation, a teacher in a maximum security prison and in a juvenile detention center, and manages a cafe.