A feminist anthropologist by training, Rebecca has spent decades leading gender and inclusion focused research, training, evaluations, designs, strategy development, and project implementation based on a deep contextual understanding of intersectional identities and power dynamics, social and gender norms, and political economy issues.

Rebecca has nearly thirty years of policy and field experience in Asia, Africa and the Pacific. She is passionate about gender equality and social inclusion, and has recognised experience on economic empowerment, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender and social norms, social protection, and gender-based violence. Rebecca has extensive knowledge of key concepts, frameworks, approaches and evidence of what works to achieve empowerment, and recognised expertise in designing and leading innovative qualitative research and designing and leading complex evaluations. She is increasingly marrying her ethnographic expertise with participatory design to create new and better ways to both understand the barriers to and opportunities for greater equality and inclusion and to apply this deeper understanding in the co-creation of solutions. Rebecca's thought leadership in the sphere of girls' and women's economic empowerment and social norms has produced a significant body of cutting-edge research that has informed programming and policy for bilateral and multilateral agencies, country governments, non-profits, and the private sector. 

Rebecca has a PhD in Social Anthropology from SOAS in London, UK, and a Master’s in Applied Anthropology from the University of Alberta, Canada. Rebecca’s pioneering work supporting social enterprises across Africa and Asia to have greater impact on the lives of adolescent girls was featured in Vanity Fair in 2015. She was recognised as one of Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential People on Gender Policy 2021. Rebecca sits on the Board of KadAfrica, a Ugandan social enterprise that works to economically empower out-of-school adolescent girls.