Rebecca moved from her tenure as the national Coordinator to become the Northwest Coordinator in fall 2003. In 2007, she retired her coordinator hat to enjoy the Oregon summer.

As national and Northwest Coordinator, she participated in the rulemaking of the new Integrated Licensing Process, has testified before state legislatures, and published in newsprint and elsewhere on the importance and progress of hydropower dam reform.

Before coordinating for the Coalition, Rebecca worked for American Rivers’ hydropower and outreach campaigns, working with grassroots river groups from across the country most intensely on coal mining issues.

Rebecca has crisscrossed southern Africa, in part to conduct historical research under a Wagoner Grant. She has also served as an Americorps*VISTA in southeastern Kentucky, her homestate, directing a youth literacy project through the sponsorship of Save the Children.

Rebecca holds a B.A. from Rice University in history with an emphasis on gender and African studies. She is a long-standing admirer of rivers, having grown up in Kentucky right along the Ohio. Her favorite river song is, uncontestably, "Paradise" by John Prine.

At right, she is pictured paddling upstream.

Contact Rebecca at rebecca at hydroreform dot org.