Rebecca grew up in Maine and is the driving force behind Maine By Foot, a comprehensive guide to the state’s trails. (She has a lifetime goal of hiking every trail in Maine!) She values public access to these trails made possible by generous landowners and the efforts of land trusts and conservation organizations, and she is a big supporter of land conservation, too, for its own sake.

When she’s not hiking, she works in the communications office of Bowdoin College. Before she worked in public relations, she was a reporter in Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire. She lives in West Bath.