She works in the Immigration Project’s office located in Champaign, Illinois. Her work and passion primarily consist of the representation of immigrant victims of domestic violence (and related traumas) and of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) fleeing violence and extreme poverty in their home countries and seeking asylum in the United States. She is a faculty affiliate of the University of Illinois’ Women and Gender in Global Perspectives (WGGP) Program and a recipient of the International Women’s Day Award presented by the University of Illinois’ Women’s Research Center. Rebekah teaches students of the University of Illinois College of Law’s Domestic Violence-Immigration Clinic (DVIC) the substantive areas of immigration law and supervises students’ representation of Immigration Project clients.