Rachael Goldfarb has spent her career working at the intersection of community engagement, team effectiveness, productivity, and strategic partnerships. Dedicated to innovation, engagement, and financial empowerment, Ms. Goldfarb has had a distinguished career within some of the most influential and compelling organizations in the United States. 

During the pandemic, Ms. Goldfarb used her considerable talents to assist Dress for Success, Washington, D.C. (DFS), transition their infrastructure to an all-digital platform, and secure nearly $200,000 in-kind donations, thus doubling their operating budget. She led a team to redesign their entire website and pivot to a Virtual Career Center, the first of its kind for DFS nationally. In addition to increasing social media engagement by over 200%, Ms. Goldfarb secured nearly 200 free hours from administrators to build a Salesforce interface that revolutionized the way DFS does its business. Because DFS exclusively uses a referral model for its programming, Ms. Goldfarb led the effort to re-engage over 150 community partners and non-profits throughout the DC-MD-VA region to make them aware of DFS’s new services. After completing her work for DFS, she co-founded Women’s HQ, a new advocacy and justice non-profit that serves as a community intervention model for domestic violence and sexual assault survivors of color. She developed the non-profit’s mission, vision, values, and strategic plan and filed all legal documents, including Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws, and presented a pitch deck she designed before several Fortune 100 companies.

Before her non-profit work, Ms. Goldfarb served as Campaign Manager for Jessica Sutter’s local School Board of Education race in D.C. where she raised more money than anyone in the history of Ward 6 and won the seat by the largest margin in the history of the race. Ms. Goldfarb was responsible for all of her campaign activities in addition to designing her website.

Ms. Goldfarb served as the Chief of Staff to the Technology & Innovation (T&I) Team at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She was one of the first 20 members of the Bureau and led the recruitment and hiring of the entire T&I division. The team she hired and mentored developed an award-winning website and continues to be at the forefront of facilitating innovative technology solutions within the federal sphere. She secured a perfect net promoter score of 100% following the Bureau’s website launch, negotiated the first agency-wide open-source policy, and her innovative hiring approaches served as the basis for an important program that has modernized technology throughout the federal government. Ms. Goldfarb was a primary senior advisor to the CIO responsible for a wide range of internal management initiatives, including developing and operationalizing the technology and innovation strategy for the Bureau and ensuring the Division was appropriately engaged with internal and external stakeholders.

Having started her career as the Special Assistant for Chief of Staff John D. Podesta at the White House, Ms. Goldfarb has extensive experience in management and leadership development. She has served as a Chief of Staff for both the President of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Undersecretary for the largest division at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In addition to informing and supporting strategic decisions, she has served as a legal advisor to several senior executives. Her legal background includes clerking in both the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ms. Goldfarb holds a B.A. with Honors in American History from the University of Pennsylvania and a Juris Doctor from Penn State-Dickinson Law School. Although a Philadelphia native whose loyalty lies with their sports teams, she lives with her husband in Washington, D.C.