Rae was born in San Diego, CA and raised in Michigan. By merging traditional and experimental methods with the assembling of new plant mythologies, she archives stories that references the dynamic geography of her ancestors within the US and their rich oracions and practices centering plants. While receiving her BA from Wellesley College and working with and researching plants and art across professional disciplines at academic and cultural institutions domestically and abroad (MIT, Harvard, Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea, Zoma Museum), she sought out opportunities to deepen her understanding of black American and diasporic relationships to plants. Rae is driven to corporealize and amplify the documented legacy of flora and cultural memory relations by means of joy, imagination, and establishing a sense of place through “visual herbalism”.