Co-FounderThe Social Co.
Rebekah is Co-Founder of The Social Co., the team that initiated the 50 For 50, Pledge It Forward and Samsung Power To Progress movements in September 2014, May 2017 and August 2018 respectively. Together, the team brought together more than 100 individuals, 90 corporations and more than 250 partners to raise awareness of and funds for more than 50 lesser-known charities in Singapore. In total, they’ve raised almost $5 million and heaps of awareness via their different initiatives. The Social Co. will be focusing on bridging the gap between youth and our senior generation for the next three years via dialogues, research, and events.
In February 2018, Rebekah hosted and interviewed several practitioners and experts in the healthcare space in a documentary on the state of healthcare in Singapore, screened on Channel News Asia. Rebekah was on the committee of the Yellow Ribbon Fund from 2011-2015 and has served for 2 years as a main committee member for Community Chest. She has been running her family foundation, Jia Foundation since 2013.
She was selected to be a Leader of Tomorrow at the 2015 St. Gallen Symposium and was also selected as 1 of 18 Young Societal Leaders by the SMU Institute for Societal Leadership and Temasek Connects for the Singapore Summit in 2017. In 2019, she was selected to be a fellow for the Arts For Good Fellowship program organized by the Singapore International Foundation.
Rebekah graduated from Nanyang Technological University with an honours degree in Business Administration and has completed an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck College, University of London and an MSc in Gerontology from King's College London.