As an 18 year veteran of tobacco control, Rebecca is currently an assistant professor of Communication at Kennesaw State University.  She previously served for seven years as a Health Scientist and Health Communications Specialist in the Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where she provided assistance with planning, implementing and evaluating tobacco counter-marketing campaigns with tobacco control programs in state health departments, national partner organizations, federal agencies and other health organizations.   

Previously, she was the Utah state coordinator for the CDC’s national tobacco control grant, and the Western New York Field Director for the NCI’s ASSIST (American Stop Smoking Intervention Study) at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.  Rebecca has won five national awards for health communication efforts. She has been part of passing local tobacco control ordinances, state laws, and commenting on federal regulations. She earned her doctorate in Health Education and Promotion at the University of Utah and holds a Master of Public Health degree from the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah.   Rebecca also has a BA in Public Communications from the State University of New York College at Buffalo and a BA in English from Niagara University.