Meet Rachel

I drive my Jeep up unmaintained dirt roads to our log cabin home miles outside of Pagosa Springs, where we haul our own water and stay warm by fire through long winters buried in snow. This is everyday life for us, and it’s the kind of life that keeps you grounded whether you intend it to or not.

Under God, my family is most important to me. We learn and grow together as we are blessed to have experienced the amazing nature of our Colorful Colorado. We have campfires, spend time hiking to natural hot springs and wading along rivers, and when the moon is full we step outside just to watch it. Every evening we bask in the glory of our sunsets and on clear nights, we watch the Milky Way stretch across the sky. It reminds us exactly where we are — and how small government can be when compared to the land itself.

We hunt for our own Christmas tree as our Thanksgiving weekend tradition, and stay alert and aware of the bears that wander through our property. Turkeys stroll through the yard, gobbling an alarm in the early morning. 

Living this way teaches you respect — for nature, for limits, and for the fact that not everything needs to be controlled or managed.

I’m a homeschooling mother of two and their father, Michael, and I are raising our kids together with an appreciation for responsibility, independence, and freedom — not the abstract kind, but the lived kind that comes from doing things yourself and understanding consequences. We love Colorado for what it is, not for what others want to reshape it into, and yes, we care deeply about staying free and protecting our family.

Alongside this life, I’ve spent more than twenty-two years writing and thinking about constitutional limits, government accountability, and the long-term consequences of unchecked power. I started at seventeen, worried about the national debt during the Iraq War, and that concern grew into a lifelong focus on how government decisions shape everyday lives.

Professionally, I’ve been a small business owner and strategic consultant, helping organizations work through financial strain, operational breakdowns, and leadership challenges. I was the youngest board member elected to serve with Chimney Rock National Monument’s partner association during the site’s transition from nonprofit oversight to federal management, an experience that made clear how easily authority can drift when roles and limits aren’t respected. About three years ago, I became a Certified Scrum Master, focusing on team building, accountability, and system frameworks that work from the ground up, writing a book explaining how we can incorporate these methods into creating lean government.

More recently, I helped found Pagosa Springs Friends of the Wild — Keep Pagosa Wild — because protecting the places that make Colorado what it is shouldn’t require bureaucracy or control, just people who care enough to work together to conserve what makes Colorado great.

This campaign comes from the same place as my life. 

I believe in staying humbling and having limits, in practicing personal responsibility, and in celebrating people living their lives without being managed from a distance. 

I’m running for Governor to govern with restraint, to protect the rights of the People, and to keep Colorado constitutional — so the way of life that drew so many of us here is still here for the next generation.