Rebecca R. Rubin is an environmental consultant, writer and speaker providing expertise and opinions to public and private sector organizations and non-profits on climate change, climate justice, and large landscape-scale conservation.
She founded international environmental consulting firm Marstel-Day LLC and served as its president and CEO for two decades, guiding its evolution as one of the first for-profit companies in the nation to be committed entirely to the conservation of natural resources, especially habitat and open space, through its programs in support of federal land-managing clients in the National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Defense Department.
She currently serves on the non-profit boards of the Virginia League of Conservation Voters, The Nature Conservancy of Virginia, Wild Virginia, and as a General Board member of Virginia Forever. She previously served as board chair of the National Wildlife Refuge Association and as a member of Virginia’s Air Pollution Control Board by appointment of the Governor. For her work in community resilience planning, she was named a White House Champion of Change by President Obama.
She has a BA from Harvard College and an MA in international security from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.