Rachael is currently a graduate student pursuing an advanced degree in Classics and Art History. She served as a cataloguer for Sotheby's Art Institute during 2000-2001 for the departments of paperweights, antiquities, judaica and silver. She earned a certificate of appraisal at New York University. While at school Rachael catalogued the Ancient Art collection of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. Another specialty of hers includes Judaica items (printed ephemera, religious objects, silver and textiles).

She also has a reading knowledge of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, German, French and Spanish..