Rebecca is a senior communications leader with two decades of experience maximizing strategic communications for social justice. Her approach to narrative strategy amplifies advocacy efforts for justice and fairness. Rebecca specializes in high-impact advocacy communications campaigns from start to finish, narrative strategy, and crisis communications. Rebecca also works with clients to build their communications infrastructure and provides communications coaching to executives and staff at all levels.She previously served as the Director of Strategic Communications at the State Bar of California, a regulatory agency focused on public protection, leading the agency's communications efforts through a period of reform and transition.Rebecca also served as Director of Communications at the ACLU of Northern California, where she led a dynamic team at the largest ACLU affiliate in the country. She was a coalition leader in communications campaigns that helped pass groundbreaking laws to support transgender students and expand early abortion access in California. She led the communications efforts that resulted in the repeal of the Department of Defense combat exclusion policy, which had discriminated against female service members. She also worked with UC Davis students who were pepper-sprayed to tell their stories as part of the ACLU-NC's lawsuit that won a $1 million settlement on their behalf. Additionally, she helped launch Demand Your dotRights, the ACLU's campaign for digital privacy and online free speech.Rebecca was the Communications Officer for Breast Cancer Action, where she worked closely with and was mentored by the late Barbara Brenner. At BCA, she directed strategic communications and led the Think Before You Pink campaign, which changed the conversation around pink ribbon cause marketing. She began her social justice communications career in Washington, D.C., as Press Secretary for a national feminist organization.She has presented at conferences including SXSW Interactive and Creating Change, and has been a guest lecturer at Stanford Law School. She is a previous Rockwood Leadership Institute LGBTQ Fellow. Expertise• Strategic communications• Campaign strategy • Narrative strategy + message development• Leadership + management• Media relations• Digital communications• Crisis communications + rapid response• Integrated advocacy• Communications coaching