Rachel Benbrook
Rachel Benbrook graduated from Oklahoma State University in 2013, where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority and majored in strategic communications, with minors in history and leadership. She went on to receive a master’s degree in political communications from the University of Leeds, England. She also obtained a graduate certificate in hidden student populations in higher education from Oklahoma State University.
Currently, Rachel works for the OSU Foundation at OSUOKC as the Regional Coordinator, where she works in development, and provides support for fundraising for student scholarships.
In her spare time, she volunteers with many various community groups in the Oklahoma City area, including the Junior League of Oklahoma City, where she has served on a committee called EmpowHer to help alleviate period poverty in the metro, and volunteered with the boys and girls club. She is on the board of the Lyric Theater, the Youth Leadership Exchange, and the Oklahoma Contemporary Art Museum. She volunteers on the Allies, the young professional’s board for the YWCA, and serves as a volunteer hospital advocate on the sexual assault team. She is also a regular volunteer with the local nonprofit The Spero Project, which helps newly resettled refugees in Oklahoma. Rachel has been tutoring a member of the community for five years through the program and is proudly assisting her with her up and coming United States citizenship exam.
She is serving as the 2024 co-chair for Allied Arts young professionals’ fundraiser and art show, ARTini, as well as several other arts organizations.
She was a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma City’s LOYAL program, class 16, where she engaged in leadership development, and community service. She served as a mentor for the YMCA college readiness mentorship program at a local high school in 2021-2023 and was on the Make a Wish Young professionals board.
In 2023, she was named one of 50 Women in the state of Oklahoma who are making a difference by the Journal Record.
In her additional free time, she makes homemade jewelry, candles and crafts, and spends time with family, friends, and her adorable one eyed mini poodle Snoopy!
