She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the College of Idaho and a Juris Doctor from the William & Mary Law School.
After working as a legal fellow in Washington, D.C., she became an asylum officer with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services in San Francisco.
[2] From 2017 to 2019, she was a staff attorney at Homebase, a non-profit public interest law firm based in San Francisco.
[3] In 2019, Rabe returned to Boise, Idaho, where she became the executive director of Jesse Tree, a non-profit social services organization that provides legal representation to homeless individuals in the Treasure Valley region.
Rabe defeated Republican nominee Gary Smith in the November general election with 61.8% of the vote.