Dr. Rachel Kaitz has taught courses in Marketing, Management, International Business, Leadership, Retail Management, International Marketing, Public Relations, Promotion, Business Communication, Consumer Behavior, Strategy and Policy, Advertising, Integrated Marketing Communications, Copywriting, Economics and Business in the US and abroad since 1993. Dr. Kaitz has a Journalism degree with an emphasis in Advertising and Public Relations from the University of Georgia, a Master’s in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, CA.
Rachel has worked as an Account Manager, Radio Station Executive, Public Relations Director, Mortgage Broker, Disc Jockey and Financial Counselor. In the mid 90’s Dr. Kaitz was a founding member of a San Francisco based financial counseling organization serving businesses, employee assistance programs, and financial institutions nationwide. She was subsequently hired by Providian Financial as a research consultant to study the impact of disclosure laws on consumer decision-making and credit behavior. Overseas, Dr. Kaitz has worked as a marketer for a London based insurance agency and as an Economics instructor for the Ford Foundation at the National Economics University in Hanoi, Vietnam. She is currently a Professor at Lewis-Clark State College and lives in Coeur d’Alene, ID with her husband Ed and their Bulldog Butkus. Their four children have flown the coop and are having adventures of all kinds.
