Rachel Herrera (she/her/ella) is a physics teacher at Mission High School in San Francisco. Herrera is a recipient of the Knowles Teaching Fellowship and earned her Bachelor of Science in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University. After completing a Fulbright Fellowship in Mexico, she worked in grants management and disaster recovery at Deloitte Consulting before receiving her master’s degree in education from Stanford University. As an educator, Herrera combines her content knowledge and passion for science with over a decade of experience in bilingual teaching and activism within the Latino community. Outside of the classroom, she enjoys boxing, playing soccer and water polo, completing the New York Times crossword and attending weekly trivia nights with friends.
