Rachel Jamison holds a J.D. from UC Berkeley and works as an Instructor at NYU Abu Dhabi in their legal studies program teaching Speech, Debate, and Oral Argumentation. At the escalation of hostilities in the war in Ukraine in February 2022, she determined herself to find a way to help and to offer something to the Ukrainians' cause. When the call was made for foreign volunteers, she developed and started working on an idea which would later become the Protect a Volunteer (protectavolunteer.com) project she now runs.