Rebecca is the director of urban design and policy at The Municipal Art Society (MAS), leading strategic initiatives including Enduring Culture as well as housing and public realm advocacy. Previously, she was the director of urban design and strategy at the NYC Public Design Commission, where she led interagency initiatives and regulatory design review of complex mixed-use developments focused on the provisioning of public space, housing, and urban systems. Rebecca is managing editor of the City’s Designing New York: Quality Affordable Housing publication and co-author of Women-Designed NYC and Prefabrication in the Public Realm. Rebecca holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Anthropology, with a minor in American Culture Studies, from Washington University in St. Louis. She currently serves as a consultant for the Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project Cities Network, as an Urban Design Forum Global Exchange Fellow focused on taking big swings at New York City’s housing crisis, and is a mentor with ARCscholars.