Rachel Menzel earned her Master of Library and Information Science from Kent State University in 2018. Previously, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Music Performance from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in 2013.  
Before Creighton, Rachel’s professional background includes a stint at the USDA APHIS National Wildlife Research Center, the headquarters of the agency’s Wildlife Services division in Fort Collins, Colorado. Along with reference work to support leading research scientists in the federal government’s wildlife management efforts, she maintained a database of thousands of references for environmental and biological impact assessments and served on the Center’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). She also piloted a program to speed up data monitoring in the institutional archive using automating scripts. Prior to her government and academic work, Rachel began her library career as an Assistant Librarian at Cheongna Dalton School, an international school in Incheon, South Korea.