During law school she worked at the Special Court for Sierra Leone on a legal defense team for the AFRC-accused case. Later, she returned to begin production on WAR DON DON, which profiles the trial of a leader of a separate warring faction. WAR DON DON won the Special Jury Prize at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. Rebecca was profiled in Filmmaker Magazine‘s 25 New Faces in Independent Film as an “up-and-comer posed to shape the next generation of independent film.” Rebecca graduated from Brown University and Harvard Law School. Between trips to Sierra Leone, she has been adjunct faculty at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and at American University’s Human Rights Institute.