Rachel Konrad

Tesla 1200 Mile Road Trip With Former Freep Auto Writer Rachel Konrad

ANN ARBOR - One of the knocks on Electric Vehicles is they aren't good for long road trips. Not true says Rachel Konrad, former Detroit Free Press auto writer, and now a California venture capitalist. Rachel and her family drove from the San Francisco Bay area to New Mexico in a Tesla Model Y, 1,200

By |2023-01-25T11:12:25-05:00January 24th, 2023|Auto Tech, Clean Update, Clean, green, hybrid, mitechtv|

Former Detroit Free Press Reporter Rachel Konrad Named To Next Gen Foods Board

DETROIT - Next Gen Foods has named former Tesla and Impossible Foods executive Rachel Konrad as its first independent board member. Konrad grew up in Grosse Pointe and spent five years working for the Detroit Free Press in the 1990s. "We can't solve our planet's climate and extinction crises without radical changes to the food system --

By |2021-09-29T15:17:05-04:00September 28th, 2021|New Products, New Products / Contracts|

Detroit’s Own Rachel Konrad Now PR Boss At Impossible Foods

ANN ARBOR - Former Free Press Auto Writer Rachel Konrad reflects on a 25-year communications career that has led her to run worldwide communications for Impossible Foods, the vegetable meat sustitute that Burger King sells as the Impossible Whopper nationwide. The Impossible Foods Mission Statement: We’ve been eating meat since we lived in caves. And

By |2020-11-19T19:23:31-05:00November 19th, 2020|Business, mitechtv|

MITech TV Nov. 16: Bamboo Royal Oak, Impossible Foods, COVID-19 Vaccine Models

ANN ARBOR - On MITechTV Monday Nov. 16 at 2 pm, Amanda Lewan the co-founder of Bamboo Detroit co-working space in Detroit, will talk about her newest location under development in Royal Oak. At 2:15 Rachel Konrad, former Detroit Free Press auto writer, is now the head of worldwide communications for Impossible Foods, a plant-based

By |2020-11-15T16:43:02-05:00November 15th, 2020|Podcasts|