Rachel Mavrothalasitis

COO at Multifamily Impact Council

Speaker

Through over a decade of designing, implementing, evaluating, and communicating impact programs across the financial return spectrum, Rachel Mavrothalasitis has honed her expertise as an impact investor and practitioner focused on the U.S. housing market.

Rachel serves as Chief Operating Officer for the Multifamily Impact Council, a national, non-profit membership organization of diverse stakeholders committed to creating, preserving, or supporting affordable, sustainable multifamily rental housing in the United States. In this capacity, Rachel supports the evolution and adoption of the Multifamily Impact FrameworkTM and furthers MIC’s contributions to the multifamily industry. Rachel also supports impact investors and housing operators to define their sustainability and impact processes, through her consulting and advisory services firm Reach&Root Partners LLC.

From 2018 to 2023, Rachel served as Director of Impact for a private equity impact firm dedicated to delivering socially enriching health, education, and housing real estate nationwide. In this role, Rachel led impact measurement and management and resident service delivery across 12,000 units of multifamily housing, doubling participation and driving program satisfaction of over 98%. This work also included policy creation, staff training, and investor and external reporting.

Prior, Rachel worked in direct service roles first with young children in the foster care system and later as Director of Housing Advocacy for Safe Place for Youth, a low-barrier resource center for young people experiencing housing insecurity. There she oversaw youth advocacy, the development of a regional system of coordinated housing assessment, and the design and delivery of all housing programs and partnerships, including a supportive housing program for parenting youth and L.A.’s first youth Host Homes program. This work earned her formal recognition from the L.A. Board of Supervisors for her contributions in service.

Rachel serves on the Impact Capital Managers’ Talent and Diversity Working Group, as co-chair for the Pension Real Estate Association’s Social Impact Committee, and on the board of Voices of our City Choir, an arts and healing organization in her hometown of San Diego. Rachel graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley with Bachelors of Arts in Psychology and Public Health and with honors from the University of Southern California, as a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Social Work, where she was a Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab Fellow