Biography

Rachel Bauer serves as the associate program director for the AgriLife Extension Disaster Assessment and Recovery, DAR, unit.  She is officed in Austin at the Texas Division of Emergency Management, TDEM, and serves as the AgriLife Extension liaison to the State Operations Center.  Bauer coordinates the agencies’ disaster preparedness and response efforts with DAR leadership, TDEM and other state agencies. Since 2019, she has coordinated agency response efforts during the COVID pandemic, multiple wildfires and severe weather events.

Prior to her service with the DAR Unit, Bauer served as an AgriLife Extension agriculture and natural resource agent in Comal, Hays, Caldwell and Bastrop counties from 1992-2019. She provided leadership in beef cattle, forage and pecan programming, and worked extensively with volunteers in the Master Gardener, Master Naturalist and 4-H and youth programs. Bauer earned her bachelor’s in animal science from Texas A&M and a master’s in agricultural education from Texas State University.