Rachel Jessen is a documentary photographer telling feminist stories about power, identity, and women’s lives. She has exhibited her work widely locally, nationally, and internationally in venues such as the Griffin Museum (Winchester, MA), Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (Milwaukee, WI), PH21 Gallery (Budapest, Hungary), Filter Photo (Chicago, IL), Les Inattendus Film Festival (Lyon, France), and Duke University (Durham, NC), where she has presented three solo exhibitions. Her editorial and commercial work has been published extensively in The New York Times, ESPN The Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Buzzfeed News, Financial Times, Insider, Bloomberg News, and Reuters, among many others. Her work has been written about in Photo District News, Aint–Bad, Duke Magazine, and Southern Cultures. She is a former Kenan Institute for Ethics Fellow at Duke University, Eddie Adams Workshop XXXI attendee, Magenta Flash Forward award winner, and, most recently, was a 2021 Fulbright predoctoral research scholar in Galicia (Spain).