Rachel McPherson 

Rachel McPherson, a Brooklynite transplanted from her native Mississippi, is a versatile blend of high-energy entrepreneurial spirit and dedicated community activism. She is a producer for film and television and was nominated for an Academy Award for the film “Signal Through the Flames”. She is also active in numerous professional and cultural associations. Rachel has been an essential leader in the fund raising, development, and event planning and production efforts of the organizations in which she is involved. She serves as Board President of The Berkeley Carroll School in Park Slope, Brooklyn and as Chair of The Ole Miss Women’s Council. She also actively participates on the boards and development committees for The Prospect Park Alliance of Prospect Park and New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn and is founder of the New York Mississippi Picnic.

Rachel McPherson has used her considerable fundraising and entrepreneurial skills, combined them with her activist spirit and her lifelong love of animals in creating and overseeing The Good Dog Foundation. Good Dog provides animal assisted therapy to those who need comfort and assistance wherever they maybe, including hospitals, assisted living centers and other facilities under disaster and normal circumstances. Under Rachel’s leadership, The Good Dog Foundation won awards from the ASPCA and the Red Cross for therapy given by Good Dog teams to families of victims, rescue workers and many others in the aftermath of the WTC disaster on 9/11/2001.