Founder

Rae co-manages the Plainfield Farmers Market and co-founded the Plainfield Resilience Hub, currently serving as co-project manager working to build an emerging mutual aid network to adapt to short and long term climate and political crisis. She serves on the leadership council for the Central Vermont chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice , is a community partner with the Vermont Land Access and Opportunity Board, and is an associate with The Creative Discourse Group in Burlington, Vermont. 

A practicing somatic abolitionist, Rae studied with Dr. Resmaa Menakem through Education for Racial Equity and the Institute for Cultural Somatics. She is an alumni of Rockwood Leadership Institute and a trained practitioner in The Circle Way facilitation techniques. Continuing education includes studies with the adrienne maree brown, Center for Transformation & Change, Comrades Education, Reimagined, Land Peace Foundation, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program, and The Voice Incorporated. Rae holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Marist College in Organizational Communication and Public Relations and a certificate in Vocal Performance. 

Previous career roles include serving as the first communications director at the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund where she was responsible for creating the Farm to Plate Network communication systems still in use today and was the strategic visionary behind the Rooted in Vermont local food campaign. Rae owned and operated Rachel Carter PR, a grassroots marketing, public relations, and social media firm where Rae managed publicity and community relations accounts spanning government, nonprofit, municipality, and private sector industries including agriculture, community and economic development, education, finance, human services, recreation and tourism, renewable energy, and workforce development. She also worked as a journalist, was instrumental in launching the agritourism industry in Vermont, and was an early innovator in social media marketing. 

Prior to starting her first business at age 30, when she was recognized by Vermont Business Magazine as a Rising Star in its inaugural year, Rae was public relations director at Paul Kaza Associates, a public relations instructor at Champlain College, and marketing director at New England Financial. 

In her early career before coming to Vermont, Rae worked in mental health and youth services in Massachusetts, nonprofit program management in Tennessee, and communication and music education in New York. Her first job was a Girl Scout camp counselor. 

Past service roles include board of directors with Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility and steering committee with Vermonters Taking Action Against Cancer (Rae is also a two time cancer survivor). 

Rae is a practicing community herbalist in Plainfield and completed studies with the Science and Art of Herbalism. She is a certified Reiki II practitioner in the Usai System of Reiki Healing and is a member of the University of Vermont Integrative Health Practitioner Network. Rae is also an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church. 

A self taught astrologer, lifelong songstress, and weaver of elemental magic across realms, Rae is a timeless witch. She’s been speaking truth to power since she could talk and singing beauty into the world in edgy spaces for half a century. Rae practices in the Reclaiming Tradition and is committed to decolonization through accountability, animist spirituality, and coming into relationships of reciprocity with human and more than human kin.