Rebecca Gonzalez TobiasRebecca Gonzalez-Tobias is an interfaith educator and social justice advocate. Program Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics, she designs and facilitates community programming that seeks to foster a culture of peace on a local, national and international level.

In an effort to bring ethics to government and public policy she regularly addresses civic and academic institutions on behalf of Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives, forwarding the agenda outlined in Rabbi Michael Lerner's version of a Global Marshall Plan. Recently introduced to federal legislators on Capital Hill (HR1078) the bill offers practical and substantive legislative steps to expedite the eradication of poverty, homelessness and social inequity in the US and abroad.

As a fellow at the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva she assisted Special Rappateur Miguel Alfonso Martinez in the drafting of resolutions for the Working Group for Indigenous Populations for the Human Rights Sub-Commission meeting held in August 2005. Rebecca serves as a delegate to the UN's Tripartite Forum on Interfaith Cooperation for Peace and the Committee of Religious NGOs. She resides on the board of the LA-PSR's Non-nuclear Proliferation Committee, the LA planning and coordinating council for the Parliament of the World's Religions, and is a US representative of the Interfaith Encounter Association of Israel/Palestine.

She has been invited as guest lecturer and presenter on issues of ethics and inter-cultural cooperation at the Palaise de Nations in Geneva, the Global Assembly of the United Religions Initiative in Mayapur India, the IHRC/CIDH UCLA Brain Trust, California State University Northridge,  Arlington West and others. Her work has been a concerted effort to build coalitions and to empower citizen advocacy in an effort to improve the lives of all stakeholders on the planet.

Rebecca attended the University of London in 1984, graduating from Florida International University in 1989 with a degree in Political Science and Comparative Religion. In 1996 she went on to study ethics, culture and mysticism of early Christianity and Islam throughout Turkey with the Catholic Sisters of Notre Dame College. In 2003 she attended the Elijah Interfaith Academy of Jerusalem studying sacred tests of the Abrahamic faiths with Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein who is a founding member of the World Congress of Imams and Rabbis.