Elephant paleontologist turned law school graduate and comic book writer.
Education
Law School
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Juris Doctor, 2020
Accomplishments:
Award for Exemplary Contributions to the Quality of Student Life
Touro Law Review
Teaching Assistant for Legal Process I & II and Criminal Law
Research Assistant
President of LAMBDA Law Students Association (LGBT+ Law Society)
Marketing & Public Relations Representative of Intellectual Property Law Society
Graduate School
East Tennessee State University
Master of Science, Geosciences, 2017
Accomplishments:
Master’s Thesis: A Paleontological Analysis of Late Pleistocene Proboscidea from Saltville, Virginia: Taphonomy, Systematic Paleontology, and Paleobiology
Teaching Assistant & Graduate Coordinator of Earth & Society Lab
College
College of Charleston
Bachelor of Arts, Geology, 2015
Accomplishments:
College of Charleston Comic Book Club Co-Founder and Vice-President
Legal Publications
The Future of Cryptocurrency and Real Estate Transactions
Touro Law Review: Vol. 38: No. 3, Article 6 (2022)
Comic Books, the First Amendment, and the “Best Test” For Right of Publicity Issues
Touro Law Review: Vol. 36 : No. 4, Article 19 (2021)
The Law of Obscenity in Comic Books
Touro Law Review: Vol. 35 : No. 4, Article 10 (2020)
About
Rachel Silverstein is a law school graduate living on Long Island, New York. No, she is not an attorney.
Her comic book writing career has jump started with the release of Dark Horse Comics’ Renegade Rule, alongside co-writer Ben Kahn and artist Sam Beck. More comics are in the works, so stay tuned!
As for hobbies, Rachel enjoys playing the bass guitar, hand building pottery (see here), pen making (see here), and taking care of her plethora of pets, including:
Peach the cat
Speedracer the American green tree frog
Pancake the pacman frog
Fat Bottom Betty and Sweet Jane the White’s tree frogs
Crazy Alice, Leather Rose, and Baby Jane the Amazon milk frogs
Parsnip the leopard gecko
Yes, it’s a lot of pets.
Portrait art by Sam Beck