Rebecca grew up in Northern Virginia and graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in East Asian studies and political and social thought. She studied abroad in Shanghai, wrote her senior honors thesis on political dissent in Hong Kong, interned with the State Department in Shenyang, China, and worked in Taiwan for a year on a Fulbright grant. Rebecca then spent two years as an analyst at an international law firm specializing in complex cross-border litigation. Last summer, she worked on U.S. national security policy as a Rosenthal Fellow at the Department of Defense. Rebecca will try any food at least once, loves learning languages, and dreams of visiting every national park in the United States.