Rachel Aluko (she/her)

Rachel is a student at Northwestern University studying social policy on the pre-law track. She has been on the YAB for one year and has sat on youth policy, data analysis and corporate funding & partnerships subcommittees. She has been a human rights policy advocate for the last five years, focusing on children’s rights, climate and artificial intelligence. 

Rachel is a 2024 World Bank Youth Summit Delegate. She is the executive director of Clean Future, an organization that aims to pass clean energy legislation. In this role, she has written and edited testimony on 100 clean energy bills, submitted 80 public comments and developed a policy guide that reached 20,000 people. Rachel sits on the RFK Human Rights Youth Advisory Board and is a member of the inaugural ISO Environmental Management Committee’s Youth Leadership Group where she collaborates on solutions to address the pressing challenge of energy development and transformation to support the global net zero target.  

Throughout 2024, she avidly worked with Young Invincibles to promote mental health policy and is a co-author on their 2025 federal policy agenda. Over the last two years, she has met with multiple federal offices to discuss children’s rights, climate and mental health policy. Rachel is interested in diplomacy and is an aspiring international human rights lawyer.  

Quote: “Being on the YAB has taught me so much about artificial intelligence policy!”