She will speak at the International Women’s Day celebration.
Posted: March 5, 2009 – 12:00am
By Deirdre Conner
Few people relish their jobs the way Rachel Obal does.
Equal parts networker, storyteller, social worker and listener, Obal, 57, is a case manager with Lutheran Social Services’ refugee resettlement program. It’s less of a job, actually, and more of a calling – what else could explain why “Mama Rachel,” as most know her, spends her days helping people whose plight she understands intimately and lays awake nights worrying about them?
