Rachel Tanenhaus Joins CCPD

Join us in welcoming Rachel Tanenhaus as CCPD's new Executive Director and the City's ADA Coordinator! 

Prior to joining CCPD, Rachel spent nearly twelve years as a Program Coordinator in the Health and Disability Program at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, helping to ensure that people of all abilities and across the lifespan have access to health care. She has provided technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), accessible information technology and other access-related topics for eighteen years, and has been participating in disability awareness panels since she was ten years old. 

She has worked as an information specialist on the ADA technical assistance lines at the New England ADA Center and the US Department of Justice. 

She holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Boston University School of Public Health, and has served on several municipal disability commissions and on the Alumni Council for the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind. In her spare time she loves to read, write, travel, volunteer, spend way too much time on the Internet, and watch baseball.