Rebecca is a National Geographic Explorer who works in Peru and Canada on projects related to environmental and physical health.

Rebecca has over 6 years of research and project management experience in health and climate change adaption in Peru and Canada. She has studied human-centered and empathetic design, and collaborated with Indigenous doctors and leaders on work to improve health advocacy in Canada. Rebecca has received both a Young Explorer and Early Career grant from the National Geographic Society. Her previous work looked at how perceptions of health and well-being relate to spiritual beliefs in the Amazon, and what this means for the design of health interventions that are inclusive of all belief systems. Rebecca’s most recent work looked at the relationship between food, gender-norms, and Quechua culture, through community-led photography, in the Peruvian Andes. This work was done alongside with Mater Iniciativa and Mil restaurant in the high Andes.

Rebecca moderated Panel 2: The Nutritional and Resilient Power of Diversity at the Agrobiodiversity Symposium on Day 2 of the Food Forever Experience Cusco.