Rachel DuRose is a Future Perfect fellow. She covers increasingly critical issues such as climate change, housing, and mental health.

Before joining Vox, Rachel was a junior reporter at Insider where she reported on the workplace, hiring, and executive leadership. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with degrees in political science and public affairs. While in school, Rachel worked in the nonprofit and research sectors at organizations such as Libraries Without Borders and the Global Lab for Research in Action. As an opinion columnist for UCLA's student newspaper, the Daily Bruin, she wrote about the first-generation college student experience and the Los Angeles housing crisis.