Rachel Moriarty has been working in academic publishing since joining Springer Nature as a Senior Editorial Assistant in 2009, following completion of an MSc in Publishing. Thirteen years on, she is an experienced Publisher, based in the UK, and working for Oxford University Press on their Medical Journals. Rachel is passionate about contributing to the wider publishing community, and held the Early Career Publisher seat on the Board of the STM Association until December 2021. She was the Chair of the STM’s Early Career Publishers Committee (ECPC) until October 2020, and remains on the ECPC as the Chair of the Mentoring sub-Committee who are responsible for the STM Mentoring Programme. She regularly participates as a panellist and speaker at industry events, with a particular focus being those aimed at developing the next generation of publishing professionals.