She attended Middletown High School where at the urging of teacher Fred Isseks, she made the documentary Garbage, Gangsters and Greed.
[1] The feature documentary Middletown follows Isseks and his students, including Raimist, and is directed by Emmy and Sundance-winning filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine.
In 2009, the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Department at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis named The Rachel Raimist Feminist Media Center in her honor, for her work building gender infused gender curriculum, community events, teaching and mentorship of students to develop as digital storytellers and feminist filmmakers.
[3] Raimist has directed numerous hours of television, with credits in drama, action, sci-fi, musicals and comedy.
Killing Me Softly With His Song; Bittersweet Symphony Pledge Allegiance Paymer vs. Paymer Raimist is active in leadership at the Directors Guild of America where she was the first appointed to co-chair the Disability Committee[5] and the first woman appointed to Co-chair The Special Projects Committee.