A native of Fort Worth, Rachel Bzostek Walker has been a professor of Political Science at Collin College since 2015. She earned her PhD in political science from LSU and has a Master’s in Israeli Politics from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her dissertation focused on the preemptive or preventive use of force, and she continues to research in this area as well as exploring the use of active learning in the classroom. She has taught full time for the last 15 years at colleges and universities in Missouri, California, and Texas, teaching a wide variety of classes including International Relations, American Foreign Policy, and Middle Eastern politics, as well as introductory classes in American and Texas government.