As WMC Media Manager Rebekah Spicuglia combines her dedication to progressive values with her background in film and television production to create and advocate for an inclusive, effective media. While at the WMC, Spicuglia has been instrumental in increasing the organization’s reach – by coordinating the newsletter and other communications, helping to manage web content and design, editing together the Daily News Brief, coordinating video production for trainings and events, establishing and managing the WMC Internship Program, and providing across-the-board support for WMC programs.

Originally from Virginia, Spicuglia grew up in California, where she worked on several film and television projects before attending the University of California at Berkeley. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications, Spicuglia joined the Media Field Strategy Team at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), where she contributed to the research and development of GLAAD’s Media Essentials guide and worked extensively on the 2006 Announcing Equality project—a national, comprehensive survey of newspaper policies on publishing same-sex wedding announcements—raising awareness about LGBT issues and encouraging people to share their stories in a visible way.

Spicuglia is also a writer, musician, mother, and an active member of the feminist mamasphere — supporting moms as a powerful political force