Rebecca Schectman

About Rebecca

(updtead 6/2017) Rebecca Schectman graduated from the College of William and Mary in 2016 with a degree in International Relations and Latin American Studies. She has worked extensively with AidData, a research lab investigating international development finance. Experienced in both quantitative and qualitative research methods, she has worked as a geo-coder to track the impact and effectiveness of foreign aid, developed methodologies to study governance reforms, and helped design field experiments. As an AidData Summer Fellow at UNICEF Uganda in Kampala, she piloted AidData field research initiatives on aid management platforms and citizen feedback data, the findings from which she presented at USAID’s 2014 TechCon. In January 2015, she worked as a Global Policy intern at the ONE Campaign in Washington, DC, where she wrote for ONE’s official blog and provided research support for Global Policy staff. While studying abroad in La Plata, Argentina, she interned with the Comisión Provincial por la Memoria, and documented human rights sites for the commission’s multimedia map. Rebecca has co-taught an English literacy class and individually tutored adult learners at Literacy for Life in Williamsburg. She has worked with the International Rescue Committee in Charlottesville as a family mentor to newly arrived refugees. An International Orientation Peer Leader, she has welcomed over 150 new international students to campus each fall. She enjoys competing in triathlons and playing classical and bluegrass violin. Rebecca is currently working with the Protection Unit at the  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . Through this placement, Rebecca has had the opportunity to gain first-hand experience on the precarious lives and legal situation of refugees in Malaysia. Her work includes casework regarding protection concerns and consolidating statistics on extortion of refugees and asylum-seekers. In her free time, she enjoys learning to make pottery and discovering new hikes and food spots throughout Kuala Lumpur.