Rachel Slaybaugh is a partner at DCVC, a deep tech venture capital firm, and a co-founder of Good Energy Collective, a non-profit policy research team that is developing policies to accelerate the just and equitable deployment of advanced nuclear technologies. She was previously an associate professor of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley and a division director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she ran the Cyclotron Road Accelerator, a program designed to support scientists by advancing their early-stage projects. Previously, Slaybaugh was a program director at ARPA-E, where she created its nuclear fission program.