Rachel is a graduate of The National Theatre School’s Acting program. She enjoys long walks on the beach, cuddling her cat, and challenging societal norms and defying boundaries placed on her because of her race and gender. More details about her extracurriculars can be found on her website.
“We’re living in a time where we were seeing ourselves being killed on social media,” Leighton says frankly, “this is not just a hot topic, it has to mean something.”
I am Black and I am exhausted. I applied to theatre school to train as an actor and yet every day feels more like training to be a civil rights activist.
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