Rachel Stuckey is assistant professor of practice in graphic design in the School of Art, Art History & Design. Born in central Illinois, Stuckey received her B.A. in computer graphic arts from Taylor University. She worked with international education nonprofits based in Europe as a graphic designer and Australia before returning to graduate school in the United States. Stuckey received her Master of Design degree from the University of Cincinnati in 2012. Her thesis was on the cross-cultural design process with a project with low-literacy children based in Mumbai, India.

She continued to work in India in children’s education along with other design projects in various parts of Europe and Africa. Stuckey was an art and design professor at SUNY Korea teaching courses for both Stony Brook University and the Fashion Institute of Technology in South Korea from 2017 to 2025.