Having spent 14 years working in Deaf education, mostly in Higher and Further education Rachel followed her passion for community work and took up a position working amongst her local Deaf community, providing access to frontline community services such as GP's and primary care, housing, social care and benefits for many years. Rachel currently spends a majority of her working life in Access to Work- providing interpretation for Deaf professionals in their job, Video Interpreting and Performance work. ​ Rachel is an experienced performance Interpreter and has been fortunate enough to work with some amazing artists in some incredible venues. Specialising in urban music, platform/ stage work, concerts, spoken word, music festivals, LGBTQ events and comedy, Rachel has a greatly varied wealth of experience in this domain. Over the past few years, Rachel has conducted research projects within the industry with the aim of supporting the development and progression of our to EFSLI- The European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters in 2021 and speaking at webinars and CPD sessions since. ​ Based in South- East London, Rachel is able to cover a large proportion of greater London and North West Kent for community, access to work, Social care or medical bookings and is available 24 hours a day nationally or internationally for video relay/remote work. ​