“Each of the courses I teach is a fascinating journey as students from multiple backgrounds learn to engage with and learn from each other.”
- Name: Rebekah Paci-Green (Dr. Paci-Green)
- From: Bellingham, Washington
- Pronouns: she/her
- Contribution/Impact: Worked with community-based organizations in Turkey, India, Nepal and Central Asia to help develop and install disaster risk reduction and educational resources.
- Occupation: Director of the Resilience Institute at Western Washington University.
- Known For: Teaching human ecology courses at Western Washington University.
- Awards: She was published in The Planet Magazine; her work titled The Social Justice Issue.
- Interesting Facts: She graduated from Cornell University studying Structural Engineering and Anthropology.
Rebekah helps people to adapt to climate change through helping people live in their environments safely and sustainably. She is a co-director of a non-profit that decreases damage to school buildings when natural disaster occurs. It is important that schools co-exist with their environment for the safely of children. For example, tsunami safety in Japan. The evacuation procedure at schools wasn’t good enough, and it resulted in a lot of deaths. She works to combat situations like this, and help people live safely in their environments.
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