Rebecca is a medical administrator at Mount Sinai Hospital who—like anyone who grew up in New York City—has an intense love for the city she’ll always call home. But she did a stint in California too, and her openness to the world and all we can experience in it shines through in this interview. Come the Fall, she’ll be enrolling in a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, a commendable endeavor by any measure, but her ambition doesn’t stop there. One day, Rebecca hopes to resume writing and maybe even acting—crafts she cultivated at her high school for the arts.