Rebecca Hillyer was the Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator with OCSDNet from 2015 to 2018. She has worked for community-based research and advocacy organizations across Canada, Ghana, South Africa, and the U.K., where her focus was on using participatory models to promote locally driven change. Since 2017, Rebecca has focused her attention toward understanding how individuals and communities can shape urban life, through her work with municipalities in South Africa and in her hometown of Owen Sound, Canada.