Rachel Bloom-Pojar is a bilingual research consultant and qualitative researcher with 15 years of experience in higher education and community-engaged projects. She has led multiple grant-funded initiatives in partnership with community health leaders, reproductive health educators, and Spanish-speaking communities in the Dominican Republic and the U.S., securing over $150,000 to support research, professional development, and storytelling projects.

Rachel is the founder of Confianza Collective, a storywork studio that partners with mission-driven organizations to document community impact through research and storytelling. She also co-founded Cuentos de Confianza (2021), a community writing project featuring stories by promotoras de salud (Latina health promoters) about their lived experiences and work toward reproductive justice.

As a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Rachel helped build and lead a graduate program in Public Rhetorics and Community Engagement. She holds a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition with training in qualitative research methods, writing pedagogy, the rhetoric of health and medicine, and community literacy studies.

Fluent in English and Spanish, Rachel takes a trauma-informed and culturally sustaining approach to all her work. She specializes in documenting stories about community health promotion, reproductive health, and immigrant communities, bringing both rigor and care to the research process.

Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, Rachel lives near Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her husband, two boys, and dog named Luna.