Rachel Byington
Position title: Indigenous Arts and Sciences Community Liaison
Email: rbyington@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-262-9591
Rachel Byington became involved with Earth Partnership in the summer of 2010, first participating in several institutes and then joining the team as an intern in 2014. Rachel is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and is from Madison, Wisconsin. She holds a BS in Family, Consumer, and Community Education, and an American Indian Studies certificate, and a MS in Civil Society and Community Studies, all from the UW-Madison. She is also currently working on a PhD in Civil Society and Community Studies in UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology. Her minor is Environmental Restoration Education. Rachel is a wife, mother of three, and grandmother of three.