After attending Kenyon College, Rachel Hecht lived in London and worked in a genre bookshop on Charing Cross Road before relocating to New York.  There, she fell in love with the international side of book publishing while working in foreign rights at Anderson Literary Management and Foundry Media, where she was Foreign Rights Director for Children’s Books.  Rachel served as children’s book scout at Mary Anne Thompson Associate's for seven years, fusing her passion for foreign rights and children’s literature as she sought to match the best English-language projects with a roster of international publisher and film clients.

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She founded Rachel Hecht Children’s Scouting in 2016, the first children’s & YA-focused scouting agency in the U.S.  ​