Rachel Xu started working with the Category5.TV team on January 5, 2010 as the artist who created some of the graphics you saw on the old Category5 site. She joined the on-air team for Season 5, beginning with an appearance on September 20, 2011.

Rachel on deviantart: speckledgoblin.deviantart.com

Rachel works doing illustrations, cartoons, paintings, portraits, graphics, photo touchups and murals for a variety of clients.

Rachel's previous media experience involves a photo of herself dressed as a cow printed in the newspaper. We decided not to ask questions or expand on this further.

When asked what she likes most about being a part of the Category5.TV team, Rachel says the M&Ms in the green room make it all worthwhile.

Rachel loves art in all forms but prefers painting and working in Photoshop and Flash, but remembers the days before Flash when she had to do digital art in... MICROSOFT PAINT! egad. These days though, Rachel is working on an art collection and hopes to start selling prints of her work in the near future.

Likes: painting, photo manipulations, reptiles, martial arts, computer games, anything made of chocolate and inserting the words "pickles" and "cheese" into as many conversations as possible.

Dislikes: filling out questionnaires, forwards, lineups, people glued to their cell phones and of course the evil gnomes that constantly steal her paints and socks.

Goofy Facts: Rachel has a phobia of warm spots in the water at the beach. She was once blackmailed by her own sister for two weeks, and once abandoned her sister in leech-infested water to save herself.