Rachel Silvera was born and raised in New York. She graduated from Stella K. Abraham High School for girls in 2016, and spent the following year studying in Israel at Michlelet Mevaseret Yerushalayim. Rachel spent this past summer participating in Yeshiva University’s Counterpoint Israel Program as a counselor at the Dimona campsite. She is an incoming Junior at Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University, majoring in education.