Her father, Pat A. Rajski, was a U.S. Navy veteran who participated in Admiral Byrd's Antarctic Expedition and Operation Highjump.
[11] She began interfacing with people making low budget indie films and met writer/director John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi at a friend's party in 1983.
[11] In 1984, Rajski and Renzi co-produced Bruce Springsteen's video for Born in the USA,[better source needed][15] which was directed by Sayles.
[better source needed][17] Rajski produced a number of Sayles's early films, including The Brother from Another Planet (1984),[14] Matewan (1987),[14] and Eight Men Out (1988).
In 2018, Rajski was selected as a mentor for Film Independent’s Global Media Makers program, an initiative in partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
[22] Rajski is a member of the Director’s Guild of American (DGA),[23] Film Independent, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).
Trevor tied for the Oscar for Best Short Subject with Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life at the 67th Academy Awards held on March 17, 1995.
[31] In 1998, Rajski founded The Trevor Project to create a 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth,[32] with Randy Stone and Celeste Lecesne.
Discovering that no such resource existed, Rajski moved to establish a nationwide 24-hour crisis line for LGBTQ+ youth which became The Trevor Project.
Rajski stated that because the show "worked in conjunction" with The Trevor Project, the organization was prepared in advance to handle the increase in hotline traffic, which was "triple the [usual] number of calls.
[40] In 2010, Rajski was appointed associate professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program[41] and promoted to head of studies for the producing track in 2011.
[43] During her time at LMU, the school opened a 35,000 square foot production facility in the Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles.