Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, she brings a decade of experience in donor organizing, community-centered grantmaking, and network-driven philanthropy. Her work centers around the belief that lasting change requires solidarity across lines of difference—and that philanthropy must be reimagined to truly serve equity and collective liberation.

Rebecca began her philanthropic journey through the Triangle Community Foundation, where she co-founded a donor-advised fund with her mother focused on environmental justice. In 2019, she joined the foundation’s Board of Directors and launched the Cast Iron Skillet Fund, which supports grassroots community organizing across the U.S. South. She now serves as Chair of the Board and sits on several key committees, including Governance and Impact Investing. Rebecca is also on the Board of the Triangle Land Conservancy, where she chairs the Finance Committee.

Rebecca’s commitment to transformational giving was shaped in large part by her long-standing involvement in Resource Generation, a national organization mobilizing young people with wealth and class privilege to work toward the equitable distribution of land, wealth, and power. She was a founding member of the Funding Queerly Giving Circle, which became one of the largest community-based LGBTQ+ funders in the country, and co-founded FrontPorch (2015-2020) a donor collaborative supporting 501(c)(4) political organizing in North Carolina.

She is also an active member of national and global philanthropic networks including Solidaire, Nexus Impact Society, Generation Pledge, and the Impact Finance Center, where she serves as a Senior Advisor. These affiliations deepen her cross-sector learning and connect her to peers working at the intersection of philanthropy, political power-building, and social transformation.

While her current work is grounded in systems thinking and strategy, Rebecca’s career began in science. She holds a Bachelor’s in Biology from Columbia University and a PhD in Neurobiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The analytical lens from her academic training continues to inform how she approaches philanthropic design, governance, and evaluation.

Rebecca is particularly passionate about reimagining how wealth is distributed and how family foundations evolve across generations. Through her leadership in her own family foundation’s next-gen committee and her active participation in values-aligned investing and governance practices, she brings both heart and rigor to the future of giving.

When she’s not challenging the status quo in philanthropy, Rebecca and her fiancée can be found exploring Raleigh’s art galleries, food scene, and cocktail bars—often with curiosity, community, and a good question in hand.