My name Rachel and I’m a VoiceMap editor in California. 

When I was sixteen I took my first trip outside the US, and fell in love with the history and culture of England. After studying theatre in College I moved ‘across the pond’ as they say, to London.

While there I began working as a tour guide, and founded London Loo Tours which took the unusual approach of showing guests’ around public toilets. The project began as a joke, but quickly became a full time occupation and obsession as I discovered that not only did these seemingly mundane spaces have a rich history and cultural significance, but everyone had a story about them. The quest for stories took me as far afield as the World Toilet Summit in Indonesia in 2013… by far the most eye-opening trip I have ever experienced. 

My particular passion is for stories that take the every day and look deeper. . There are so many things we so easily take for granted, yet everyone sees the world through a different perspective, and sharing those unique experiences can be unbelievably enriching. 

So when the time came for me to move back to the US and I was offered the chance to work for VoiceMap I was thrilled to become a part of that community


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