Rachel Utz is a staff attorney at NHeLP. Before joining NHeLP, Rachel was an If/When/How Policy Fellow at SPARK RJ Now! in Atlanta, Georgia. At SPARK, Rachel was involved in many campaigns and fostered great relationships with other repro justice orgs in Georgia.

During law school, Rachel worked as a resilience justice fellow, a fellowship aimed at addressing environmental racism in the community and identifying how best to remedy the issue. Being a resilience justice fellow allowed her to be a co-author on two publications. She taught Street Law courses at a historically Black high school in Louisville, teaching the students about their rights, what to do if they are pulled over, the right to privacy, and other basic constitutional law principles. She served as the Vice President for the Black Law Student Association and as the Community Engagement Chair with the Student Bar Association. She interned with the ACLU of Kentucky and helped research possible criminality in a post-Roe world. She worked with the Kentucky Equal Justice Center to identify those affected by felony disenfranchisement, reaching out to over 300 Kentuckians, and encouraged them to apply to have their voting rights restored.

Rachel Utz, J.D. graduated from the University of Louisville with a Bachelors of Science in Communication and then from the University’s Brandeis School of Law.

Rachel was born and raised in Kentucky and In her free time, she enjoys taking care of her houseplants, crocheting, spending time with friends, watching Parks and Recreation or helping her mom at her flower farm.