Rachel Vassar, PennFuture’s Philadelphia outreach coordinator, is primarily responsible for leading a campaign to create public riverfronts along Philadelphia's Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. She also provides support for the Next Great City initiative, a special campaign that works to implement a common sense, cost-effective policy agenda that enhances Philadelphia’s environment, strengthens neighborhoods and increases economic competitiveness. She also works on PennFuture’s other campaigns in the Philadelphia area and throughout the state.
Vassar comes from a background in faith-based grassroots community organizing and event coordination. A native of the Greater Philadelphia area, after graduating magna cum laude from New York University, she returned to the city in 2006 and has been engaged in civic, cultural, ecological, and social justice projects in the region ever since.
Vassar is the founding member of Moishe House Philadelphia and serves on the board of the Moishe Foundation, an international organization that sponsors a collection of grassroots community centers catering to the twenty-something Jewish population centered on the Jewish philosophy of Tikkun Olam, “healing the world.” For her work with the foundation, Vassar has been featured in The Jewish Exponent, the New York Jewish Week, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Vassar also volunteers with the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia and Back on My Feet, and supports the local economy and sustainable agriculture through CSA membership in Greensgrow and Dancing Hen Farms.
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