Safe In Sound
Safe In Sound
Jeremy Houtsma
Rachael Dietkus- Very Secretary, social work, skate culture and trauma informed design
2 hour 29 minutes Posted Feb 27, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
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Rachael Dietkus is a social worker, designer, and founder of Social Workers Who Design, an organization that helps and teaches designers to create from a trauma-informed lens. Rachael was also a part of the late 90's and early 2000's Midwest emo scene, as part of the skate scene and playing violin in the band Very Secretary with Braid's first drummer, Roy Ewing. Listen as we talk about Rachael's time in the band and her career as a social worker, designer and how she melded the two into something special.