Rebecca Lewis is a national and international expert in STEM education and workforce development and the Co-Lead of EDC’s Work Transformation Area growth strategy. For over 25 years, she has designed and led impactful initiatives that promote K–12 students’ STEM learning, build scientific literacy, and create pathways to careers in the STEM workforce. She specializes in strengthening education and workforce training systems to keep pace with rapidly evolving workforce needs. Throughout her tenure at EDC, she has catalyzed and sustained strong partnerships among leaders from STEM industries, corporations, career and technical education, schools, and higher education that focus on ensuring a future-ready workforce and upskilling the current workforce.

For 13 years, Rebecca has led the Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) Program Office for the Amgen Foundation. ABE has reached over 1,100,000+ students with cutting-edge science learning. Rebecca guides an EDC team in developing curricula, designing teacher professional learning, supporting sites, and leading communication and engagement to advance the program.

Rebecca directs EDC’s work in our co-leadership of the GLOBE Implementation Office. GLOBE increases scientific understanding of the Earth, supports improved STEM achievement, and promotes citizen science. Participation by students and citizen scientists in GLOBE has resulted in nearly 300 million environmental measurements being submitted to the NASA GLOBE database.

Previously, Rebecca led EDC’s Women Veterans in STEM initiative (read her Newsweek op-ed). She co-led and was a lead instructional designer for Ford Next Generation Learning, a high school reform strategy featuring career academies that combine work-based learning and academic learning.

Rebecca holds a CAES in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College, an MAT in biology from Northeastern University, and a BS in Horticultural Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.