Rebekah completed her BA in Linguistics at University College London in 2014, where they focused on sociolinguistics, language development and perception. She then moved into the private sector, working at HSBC for eight years in a variety of roles in projects around compliance, governance, disability, and climate risk, developing processes, procedures, and training. This work helped to develop and shape an interest in how structures and institutions are shaping the future, including whose voices are heard, and whose are not, and the way information and personal beliefs are used to develop that transition.
She left financial services in the summer of 2022 to commence an MSc in Environment, Development and Politics at the University of Birmingham, where they primarily focused on the UK, equitable decarbonisation, disability, and policy. Her dissertation considered the impacts of perception in respect of environmental hazards and disaster and how it influences preparedness, utilising a critical disability theory that places the experiences of disabled people at the centre of the research. She then accepted an EPSRC studentship to commence her PhD at the University of Birmingham.