{"id":7505,"date":"2024-08-07T16:12:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T21:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/health-and-wellness\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=7505"},"modified":"2024-09-11T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:34:35","slug":"rachel-banen-msw-lgsw","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/health-and-well-being\/staff\/rachel-banen-msw-lgsw\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Banen,\u00a0MSW, LGSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Rachel serves as the Associate Director of Health Promotion. She is passionate about<br>creating life-affirming systems and cultures that meet the needs of all people, with a focus on<br>centering the needs and experiences of historically underserved populations. Rachel\u2019s interests<br>include: abolitionism, harm reduction, healthy relationships and consent, and healthy<br>masculinity. Rachel has almost a decade of serving the Twin Cities community, including<br>founding a college access program, supporting asylum seekers as a social work case manager,<br>wrenching as a bike mechanic at a worker-owned bike coop, and working as a psychotherapist<br>at a community mental health clinic.<br>Rachel is a clinical social worker and continues to practice as a trauma psychotherapist. In her<br>free time, Rachel can be found wrenching on her bike and pretending that she\u2019s competing on<br>Great British Baking Show with her latest baking project.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":7719,"template":"","class_list":["post-7505","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7539,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7505\/revisions\/7539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}