Rebecca founded the Centre for Women’s Economic Safety (CWES) to raise awareness of economic abuse as a form of domestic and family violence and advocate for structural and systems change to support women’s economic safety. From 2018 to 2021 she worked at Insight Exchange; a domestic violence initiative with a focus on resistance and responses to violence and abuse.
Before Insight Exchange and CWES, she worked for Australia’s largest bank developing its employee financial wellbeing program. As a member of the Commonwealth Bank’s Domestic and Family Violence Working Group, Rebecca worked with a range of experts to develop the Women’s Financial Wellbeing Guide and partnered with Domestic Violence New South Wales to produce the Addressing Financial Abuse Guide. She also led development of the bank’s first Financial Inclusion Action Plan.
Rebecca previously led the Communications and Marketing function at Australia’s peak body for superannuation, ASFA, and was the Campaign Director for MoneySmart Week before being appointed founding CEO of not-for-profit organisation, Financial Literacy Australia in 2013.
In 2019, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate service responses to women experiencing or escaping domestic economic abuse in the UK, USA and Canada. In 2021, she was named an AMP Foundation Tomorrow Maker.