Rachel Meier
senior Associate II, Team Lead on Public Sector GHG Inventories
Rachel was born and raised along the shores of Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes while spending her summers exploring the mountains of Colorado. While in college, Rachel studied for a semester in New Zealand and she quickly became invested in climate change mitigation and adaptation (and Hokey Pokey ice cream).
After graduating with a degree in Environmental Studies and Geography at Gustavus Adolphus College, she wandered out West and jumped right into pursuing a Masters of the Environment degree at the University of Colorado-Boulder, focusing on Sustainability Planning and Management.
Rachel spent time in the conservation non-profit world creating maps and doing spatial analysis before joining Lotus, and she is excited to help clients understand where their greenhouse gas emissions are coming from and what to do about it, make data visualizations, and come up with creative ways to make messy datasets easier to work with.
“We are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us to keep. Their life is in their movement, the inhale and the exhale of our shared breath. Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift and to trust that what we put out into the universe will always come back.”
Fun Facts
Favorite Things
Coffee, peaceful hikes in the mountains, old maps, ice cream, paddle-boarding, putting my KitchenAid mixer to good use, more ice cream, playing bar bingo and trivia, live music, and watching the Green Bay Packers beat the Minnesota Vikings.
current favorite songs
Everything at Once - Hippo Campus
Screamland - Father John Misty
Prelude to Ecstasy (entire album) - The Last Dinner Party
S P E Y S I D E - Bon Iver
Anything by Hermanos Gutierrez
Favorite Places
Rocky Mountain National Park; Tongariro National Park (NZ); Reykjavik, Iceland; the North Shore of Lake Superior (MN), Lambeau Field; amidst countless music fans at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.