Rebekah Park

Rebekah graduated cum laude and with honors from Northwestern University in 2002, where she received the Jane S. Mansbridge Scholar Activist Award by the NU Women Faculty for her leadership in activist organizations and academic research grants.  Rebekah worked extensively on intersecting issues related to drug users, HIV/AIDS, and women.  Her senior thesis, supported by the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Public Health, was used to improve the longest needle exchange study in the U.S.  As a 2002-03 Fulbright Scholar in Amsterdam, she conducted research on long-term older heroin users and received an advanced Master of Science degree in Medical Anthropology.  She recently published an article on heroin addiction in Medische Antropologie journal of the Netherlands.

Field placement: Washington Community Action Network

Seattle, Washington

Policy placement: Poverty & Race Research Action Council

Washington, D.C.