Rebecca Rewald

Senior Gender Policy Advisor, Unpaid and Underpaid Care Work

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Rebecca Rewald is a Senior Gender Policy Advisor at Oxfam America (OUS) and manages the Unpaid and Underpaid Care Work (UUCW) portfolio that sits under OUS’s Gender Justice and Inclusion strategy. In this role, she overseas and engages directly in the various UUCW activities related to US foreign policy, US domestic policy, and in support of Oxfam’s country teams by leading on OUS’s care work research, policy analysis, fundraising, and campaigning.

Rebecca has been at Oxfam for nine years and has served in other positions including Program Advisor, which focused on providing gender support to Oxfam country offices and affiliates working on agriculture advocacy under the Together Against Poverty (TAP) grant. In this role, she has designed and conducted research on how gender-responsive budgeting can be used to support women small-scale farmers.

Over her career, she has published several research reports, written multiple Op-Eds, and been interviewed by the media on a variety of gender justice topics. She received her MA in International Development with a focus on Gender and her BA in International Affairs, both from the George Washington University.