Rachael Burchett,
Project Manager

Rachael is the in-house Anecdote Alchemist, working to share the stories of our clients with the broader community. As St. Louis native, she loves to be in a job that allows her to explore new places across the city. She loves to ask questions and with her background brings a fresh perspective to the team.  

As a leader in the nonprofit realm, she has spent the last decade building Solea Water, an organization she founded while still in high school. Through that, she has raised over $2 million to support water infrastructure projects and WASH programs in nearly 80 communities across Latin America in the Caribbean. She has worked in six countries on two continents with the goal of preventing water borne illnesses, building capacity in local leadership, empowering women, and providing long term access to safe drinking water. 

From 2015-2019, she spent several years creating a coffee company that brought together the St. Louis community with coffee farmers across Latin America to fund clean water projects in the same regions the coffee was grown.  Through their love of coffee, she and her partners used their Central West End café and mobile coffee camper to involve St. Louisan’s in giving back through the global economy. 

Through the pandemic years she honed her video editing skills while working for a family films company while also staying home with her kids. In 5 short years, her family grew from just 1 to 4 kids – with 3 of them arriving with mere hours’ notice. As a foster family, they are honored to get to know and support vulnerable families in the Metro East. She and her husband are advocates for family reunification and open adoption. 

Rachael has a BS in Public Health from Saint Louis University. She lives with her husband Anthony, their four young children, and orange tabby in the Metro East. 

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