Bio

[Photo credit: Gina Francesca Photography]

My name is Rachel Bursey and I was born in Bridgetown, Barbados. I was raised in Barbados to a Jamaican born mother and Barbadian born father. The second of five children, I have an older sister who lives in Australia, a younger brother who lives in Canada, a younger sister who lives in Barbados and my youngest brother that lives in California. When I was ten, I lived for a year with my family in Jamaica.

In 1991, I came to Canada to go to university at Ryerson in Toronto. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Business Management where I majored in Marketing and minored in Business Communication. I graduated in 1995. While at Ryerson, I met my husband, Tony, who majored in Applied Geography. We were married in 1996 in Barbados. We have four children.