Meet Rachel

Rachel Bloom-Pojar is a bilingual (English/Spanish) consultant and story strategist with 15 years of experience in higher education and community-engaged research. She has led multiple 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 in grant funding.

Rachel is the founder of Confianza Collective, a storywork studio that partners with founders and leaders to write and share stories about the community-centered work that they do. She also co-founded Cuentos de Confianza (2021), a community writing project featuring stories by promotores de salud (Latine health promoters) about their lived experiences and work toward reproductive justice.

As a professor, 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. In 2025, Rachel left her tenured faculty position to focus full-time on building her small business to support others who do community-engaged and justice-oriented work across nonprofits, healthcare, and academia.

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