Rachel Biale is a clinical social worker and has been counseling parents of young children for over thirty-five years. She trained at Yeshiva University's School of Social Work in New York, and at Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, in clinical social work, family therapy and parenting counseling. She worked at Jewish Family & Children's Services in Berkeley, California, where she also has a private practice in parenting counseling. She is a mother and grandmother. Rachel is also the author of Growing Up Below Sea Level: A Kibbutz Childhood (Spring 2020) and the award-winning Women and Jewish Law (1984).