Rachel Perera Weingeist is a networker, facilitator and creative leader with over two decades of experience in the arts and culture space.  Throughout her career, Rachel has specialized in building strategic alliances and partnerships with the goal of connecting funding sources to innovative programs. She is a curator, collections advisor, and program director spanning cultures, genres, and disciplines, with a particular interest in projects and exhibitions from sacred and isolated places. 

Rachel catalyzes connections to cultural organizations. She has worked with The Art Students League of New York, Vermont Studio Center and Bronx Museum, and created strategic partnerships with international engagement. Rachel has generated millions of dollars of funding backed up by pipelines of sustained support. She is a strong advocate for building data-rich cultural projects that capture the spirit of preservation and regeneration. 

Rachel is a trusted advisor to foundations, museums, private collectors, residencies, artists, and estates. Her expertise is grounded in strategic insights related to fundraising, digital technology implementation, program development, acquisitions, collections management, estate planning, valuation and deaccessioning private and public art collections. For more than eight years she served as Deputy Director and Senior Advisor at the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and a Director of the Rubin Family Office where she established, staffed and inspired office culture. Rachel was the Founding Director and Curator of The 8th Floor in Manhattan, a non-commercial space for emerging artists and movements in New York City. She has curated over 30 Cuban, Indian and Tibetan art exhibitions, in addition to establishing the first contemporary Cuban art video archive, and building one of the largest private Cuban art collections to date of over 1,000 works of art. Rachel conceived of and curated Anonymous, Kora and Tradition Transformed, the first major museum exhibitions of contemporary Tibetan art. 

Rachel launched two initiatives to enrich the lives of New York City public school students during the pandemic. She is a member of the Harvard Cuban Studies Advisory Board, former Chair of the Board of the Hip-Hop Education Center, Digital Advisor to the Universal Hip Hop Museum and is a Founding Board member of The Fields Sculpture Park at Omi, where she also serves on the Board of Architecture Omi. Rachel’s work has been featured and reviewed in The Art Newspaper, New York Times, The London Financial Times, WNYC as well as supported by the Pinkerton Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, JM Kaplan Fund and more. 

Rachel splits her time between New York City and Western Massachusetts.