Rachel Adams is a deputy editor at WorldAffairsJournal.org and the managing editor of Demokratizatsiya, a quarterly academic journal that reports on the contemporary transformation of the Soviet Union's successor states. She was previously an editor at Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning; and at Preservation, the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She received her B.A. in English from the Catholic University of America and her M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. She also edits the quarterly literary journal Lines + Stars.