Rachel Durning

Rachel Durning is the Development Officer, Grants Management at Scholars at Risk, where she supports SAR’s fundraising efforts through maintaining existing relationships with institutional funders and researching new prospective grantmakers. Prior to joining SAR, she had worked in refugee resettlement programs at the International Rescue Committee and New York University, and in fundraising and communications at the Friends of the Arava Institute, an environmental peace-building program for Israelis and Palestinians. Rachel holds a master’s degree in International Education from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.