RACHEL WAGNER
Creative and Technical Director

Rachel is a green building expert and social activist with 30 years experience in design, systems thinking, and community education. She began her career designing community-built playgrounds with a firm that engages stakeholders in the design, planning and construction. In private practice she designed custom resource-efficient homes that optimize use of the sun’s energy, during which she became what some call a “building energy geek.” Rachel now centers her work on democratizing sustainability and dismantling systems of injustice through equitable, community-based collaboration. She is a registered architect in Wisconsin and a certified Building Analyst Professional. You can read some of Rachel's perceptions here.