While in college, Rachel worked with captive dolphins and Beluga whales, then was privileged to see wild killer whales only a few weeks later. From then on it was an all-out quest to convey the wonders of nature, while pointing out the serious problems of our bad habit of dominating others and the Earth. She's been a card-carrying science writer for twenty years, with works appearing in Salon, Mental Floss, Earth & Sky Radio, her Psychology Today blog, and others. The Blackfish Prophecy is Rachel's first book.