Rebekah Reed
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Rebekah holds JD and LLM degrees from the University of Houston Law Center (UHLC) where she is an professor of legal negotiations. At UHLC, she held the inaugural Scott Chase Health Law Scholarship, and was a Dean’s Scholar, University of Houston Presidential Graduate Fellow, and a member of the Houston Law Review, the Order of the Coif, the Order of the Barons, and the UHLC Moot Court Team. She has coached UHLC moot court teams and was the winner of the John Black Moot Court competition in her 1L year. Prior to her legal studies, she received a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Georgetown University, where she was a University Fellow and Davis Teaching Fellow.
Rebekah’s career spans nearly three decades in the federal government and includes experience in international policy, human spaceflight programs, law, and leadership of technical organizations. Rebekah is also an executive coach and speaker on women in leadership. Currently, Rebekah serves as lead, International Integration for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD) at NASA. Prior to joining ESDMD, Rebekah served as acting Deputy Director, Exploration Architecture, Integration, and Science Directorate at the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC). Rebekah began her career at the Foreign Agricultural Service where she served on U.S. delegations to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and Food and Agriculture Organization; she also coordinated the sub-cabinet level Food Security Working Group which developed the United States’ first global road map for food security.
Rebekah has four daughters and four grandchildren. Her husband is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital where he is a member of the SPEARMed Division.
