Rachel Ho is an award-winning freelance writer, editor, and film critic. She is the film editor at Exclaim! Magazine and the current host of CBC-Radio's Screen Time column on Friday mornings across Canada. Rachel is a Golden Globe Awards voter and a member of the Toronto Film Critics Association, as well as the recipient of their 2021 Emerging Critic Award.

Rachel has also written for a variety of publications including, CBC Arts, The Globe and Mail, POV Magazine, Layered Butter, Slash Film, eliteGen Magazine and others. She has appeared on Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, CBC News The National, B.C. Today, and Singapore's CNA938.

In 2022, Rachel co-founded The Asian Cut, a website devoted to highlighting films and filmmakers from Asia and the Asian diaspora. The site features reviews and essays discussing Asian-led and Asian-made stories from around the world, as well as interviews with filmmakers from Asia and the diaspora, including Park Chan-wook, Adele Lim, Mohammad Rasoulof, Tamlyn Tomita, Gedde Watanabe, and many others.

Prior to beginning a career in writing, Rachel was a lawyer with a practice focused on privacy and data protection. She received her LL.B from the University of Southampton in the UK and her Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from Queen's University in Canada. Rachel was born in Toronto, Canada and raised in the adjacent suburbs. She previously lived in London, UK and Singapore before returning home to the Big Smoke where she currently resides.