Rebecca works as the Director of Product at The GIANT Room, a co-design lab built with kids, for kids. She leads the creative direction and project management of GIANT publications: storybooks, chapter books, lookbooks, journals, trading cards, games, and stationery that are co-designed by kids, featuring their ideas, projects, and designs. She also leads GIANT Creative Bootcamp, an online program where kids’ projects get mixed and remixed into print publications using generative AI tools. Throughout her time working at The GIANT Room, Rebecca has written hundreds of STEAM (STEM+Arts) workshop curriculums, designed science kits for Lysol®’s HERE for Healthy Schools Program, created prototypes of hands-on creative STEM materials using tech tools and machines, and created over 550 educational videos about a range of creative STEM topics and experts in the field.

Prior to The GIANT Room, Rebecca co-founded Art Beyond the Ink (ABI), an arts education organization which supported students and early-career artists through musical storytelling and interdisciplinary collaboration. With co-founder and co-director Emmalie Tello, ABI produced and wrote short films inspired by instrumental music, which have been screened at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music and internationally in Canberra, Australia. Designed for children in grades K-5, Art Beyond the Ink’s workbook, Hearing and Seeing Musical Stories: The Story-Filled Tool for Understanding What You Hear teaches music theory and musical storytelling through short stories, arts activities, games, and movement exercises and has been used by over 300 students across NYC.

Rebecca was also the founder of MUSES: Music for Extraordinary Students, a program that taught music to children in foster care and prevention services in the South Bronx. MUSES was presented at the 2019 Collaboratory Centennial Symposium, which showcased exemplary community-engaged projects and celebrated interdisciplinary partnerships. Both MUSES and Art Beyond the Ink were recipients of the Alsop Entrepreneurship Award at The New School.

Rebecca holds a Bachelor’s of Music in Flute Performance and a Master’s of Arts in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship from the College of Performing Arts at The New School. With her husband, Basti, and dog, Bjorn, she lives in Santiago, Chile, where you can find her badly belting out Broadway tunes, reading novels by Mark Z. Danielewski, obsessing over interior design, and making, making, making.