Rain Jacobson, MSW, MFA

Rain Jacobson is a researcher, social worker, visual artist, and educator. As a public health and social science researcher, she has contributed to publications about communication practices in the hospital setting, alternative payment models for pregnancy care, guaranteed income for caregivers, photography as a healing modality for individuals who have experienced trauma, and digital technology interventions for postpartum people. Perpetually curious, Rain frequently collaborates with other scientists, scholars, and artists. She has been teaching photography and facilitating therapeutic groups for a decade to learners of all ages and abilities. Rain has exhibited her artistic work in New York, Philadelphia, Seoul, Kyoto, and Tokyo. She enjoys bookbinding, amateur radio, growing vegetables and flowers in her community garden, and spending time with her husband and two rabbits. Rain holds a BFA from New York University and an MSW and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.