Co-Founder and CEOStreat
Rebecca is the co-founder and CEO of STREAT, a social enterprise that provides homeless and disadvantaged youth with a pathway from the street to long-term employment in the hospitality industry. Since starting its first street food cart in Melbourne in 2010 the organisation has now scaled to run six hospitality businesses (four cafes, a coffee roastery and a catering company). Across these businesses, the young people in STREAT's programs have had over 30,000 hours of training and support opportunities, whilst helping serve half a million customers. By 2016 STREAT aims to be helping 250 youth each year and be completely self-funded through its business operations. Before starting STREAT Rebecca was the Vice-President of KOTO, a hospitality training program and social enterprise for street youth in Hanoi. Prior to this she worked for a decade in science communication management at the CSIRO, Australia's premier science research organisation.