Rachel Bloom-Pojar is a bilingual consultant who partners with mission-driven organizations and research teams to support community-engaged research and strengthen writing that reflects program success and community impact. She brings over a decade of experience in qualitative research and academic writing, along with deep expertise working alongside promotores de salud and community-facing staff in healthcare and advocacy settings. Since 2021, she has helped organizations build capacity, navigate partnerships, and communicate their work with care and clarity.

Explore the section below to learn how Rachel can support your team.

Consulting

Community-Engaged Research

Strategic planning & consulting for:

  • Mutually beneficial academic-community partnerships

  • Qualitative research design & analysis

  • IRB proposals

  • Practical & public-facing deliverables

Writing Support

  • Documenting the story of your program

  • Facilitating team brainstorming & goal setting for collaborative writing

Feedback and guidance for:

  • Grant Narratives

  • Article or book development

  • Communicating the value of community-engaged work to different audiences

Retreats

Collaboratively designed retreats that are facilitated in English or Spanish for:

  • Team building

  • Project Goals

  • Engagement Strategy

  • Data Analysis & Interpretation

  • Promotores de salud

Testimonials

  • “Rachel is a fantastic resource! I have worked with her on various research projects, IRB documents, grant proposals, and scholarly works. She approaches research with compassion, empathy, and enthusiasm. She does a wonderful job of providing constructive feedback on writing while ensuring that the writer's voice and purpose stay at the forefront. I can't recommend working with her enough.”

    Chloe Cardosi, MA, PhD Candidate

  • “I collaborated with Rachel on multiple writing and research projects, and these projects helped me develop as a writer who could write for many kinds of audiences across various contexts. She helped me understand how an effective writing process works, how to write collaboratively, how to lead a team, how to write a proposal, how to write for publication, how to communicate with reviewers and editors, and many more things.”

    Gitte Frandsen, PhD