Rachel Dvorsky

Rachel has a passion for working to take care of the natural spaces around us whether it be a designated forest, local community space or her own backyard. She has a degree in environmental engineering and worked in the field of engineering for 10 years as a consultant designing green streets and working on other water resource and stormwater management projects. She has a strong personal interest in edible landscaping and native plants. In recent years she has started exploring medicinal plants and forest foraging.

Through the Stormwater Stars Program, she enjoys building community while working with volunteers on ways to improve landscape spaces with a focus on watershedwatershed an area of land that channels rainfall, snowmelt, and runoff into a common body of water, such as a nearby lake or river. Multiple streams can be part of the same watershed area, such as the Tryon Creek Watershed which is fed by Oak Creek, Park Creek, Falling Creek, and others. health and native plants.

In her spare time Rachel enjoys being active whether it be hiking, backpacking, skiing, kayaking, paddle boarding, roller skating or a neighborhood walk with her family and two dogs.