Rebecca Gallivan is an instructor at Caltech, where she works in nano-technology. Originally from Bainbridge Island, she received her S.B. in Material Science from MIT in 2017. She has spent the past 8 years working in both public and university-level teaching. As well as teaching at Caltech, she runs a research methods course for local high school students, and teaches at the local level at Catlech’s Science Nights Outreach event.