Personal Biography:

Rebecca, a long time East Palo Alto community member, has been been active in technology through business, education and community activities. Rebecca's 15 year career started at Raychem where she was first introduced to her passion for technology. After Raychem, she went to LSI Logic where she was a supervisor for developing international training materials - gathering knowledge from engineers and turning it into training materials for LSI Logic employees and customers.

After LSI Logic, she started her own business in San Francisco called Compuclerical and launch her career in academia when she worked for Cal State University Monterrey Bay in Technology, Communications, and Science. Since then she has been active in East Palo Alto working for a variety of organizations including Plugged In, OICW, and RISE as a teacher, trainer, technology coordinator and activist working to make technology accessible to her community.

Goals:

• To see East Palo Alto's technology become state-of-the-art in every sector of the City.
• To become the best leader I can be in this effort.
• To teach other city/school/business to do the same.
• To never stop learning.