Auto Portrait at City Hall a few days before Christmas.
From Rachel’s collection of daily photographs.

Rachel Cheetham-Richard, Vice President and Marketing Director brings a wealth of marketing and business development experience to the Azavea team. Before joining Azavea, she worked at The Wilma Theater as the Director of External Relations where she managed all fundraising and marketing activities for the theater. Rachel came to the Wilma from Avenue of the Arts, Inc. (AAI), where she served as the Director of Business Development and Marketing. During her time at AAI she worked at establishing the organization‘s first Membership Program, fostering collaboration amongst and exposure for the arts and culture institutions along North and South Broad Street.

At Azavea Rachel oversees human resources, marketing strategy for Azavea products Cicero, Esphero, REX, Kaleidocade, Sajara and DecisionTree, company branding including website and graphic design and is project manager for Azavea‘s work with the City of Philadelphia Department of Records‘ digital photo archive project, PhillyHistory.org

Originally from France, she enjoys cooking with lots of butter, sour cream and garlic. When she is not engaged in a fencing joust with Robert, she loves taking photographs, some of which are actually used in the top banner on the Azavea website. She also has a life-long project of taking “a photo a day”, as a way of recording ephemeral and simple moments of her life.