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Rebecca recognizes the important contribution military service members play in our national security and is passionate about helping veterans and their families access the benefits they deserve. Not only is she a veteran spouse, but she spent close to a decade working adjacent to joint and combined military commands assisting with operational readiness, human rights, international humanitarian law, rule of law, and Peacekeeping operations.

Rebecca’s early legal career was influenced by her love for the law and her desire to contribute to the global war on terror. After working for two large international law firms, she joined the US Agency for International Development in 2011 and headed to Afghanistan to work on Rule of Law issues in support of US and NATO troops. As an attorney and military readiness training specialist, Rebecca worked on post-conflict stabilization, peace support operations, counter-corruption, strategic communications, information operations, and human rights as USAID’s Rule of Law Advisor to a provincial reconstruction team in Afghanistan. In 2012, she became the Senior Rule of Law Advisor for eastern Afghanistan, leading US efforts on rule of law in Regional Command East. . Rebecca’s experience in Afghanistan led her to help rewrite U.S. Army and NATO doctrine and field manuals for stability operations.

After Afghanistan, Rebecca continued her work with military units on pre-deployment and general readiness training and exercise design. She has extensive experience working in Africa, Europe, and Central Asia conducting hands-on training and oversight of security sector reform, capacity building, educational, and institutional transformation projects. In addition to working as a Senior Human Rights Advisor for the US Department of State, Rebecca has taught lectures on human rights to UN Peacekeepers in Niger, Togo, Benin, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Rwanda and Kenya.