Rebecca is cofounder of the Third Wave Foundation, the only national,
activist, philanthropic organization serving women aged 15-30. For her
leadership, she has received the NOW Intrepid Award, the Paz y Justicia
Award from Vanguard, the Champion of Choice Award from CARAL, the Women Who Could Be President Award from the League of Women Voters, among many others. When she was 25, Time Magazine named Rebecca one of fifty influential American leaders under forty.

Rebecca has lectured at over 300 universities, including Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, and acted as a consultant to many organizations and corporations including Sony Music, Microsoft and JP Morgan Chase. She appears in Primary Colors, a Mike Nichols film, and recently hosted a series on new masculinity on Pacifica Radio. She sits on Gender PAC’s Parenting Advisory Council and the advisory board of the environmentalist organization Save the Bay.

Rebecca is at work on a second memoir and a third anthology, and divides her time between New York City and Northern California.