Rebecca Oluwatoyin Thompson is an educator, writer, and student of multiple disciplines and practices. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and African & African American Studies from Harvard University, where she studied as a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. In partnership with the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, she has taught and facilitated a variety of courses in carceral spaces across the United States that interrogate matters of race and gender through critical explorations of literature, art and pop culture. In 2022, she won the Richardson Public Service Fellowship to continue her carceral education work for one year, creating and teaching three separate courses in D.C and Framingham, Massachusetts during spring semester 2023. In the same year, she began an Applied Cartooning Fellowship at the Center for Cartoon Studies in order to kickstart a public education campaign on mass incarceration through the development of a graphic short comic. 

As a researcher on the Ghana Restitution Inventory Project, Rebecca acts as a liaison between the ANO Institute and other international museums who have collections of Ghanaian objects in their possession. Her work focuses on building connections, cultivating and maintaining partnerships, reviewing and compiling received inventories, and supporting the construction of the GRIP central inventory. Rebecca is interested in how art, education and spiritual practice inform one another, and her work gives attention to how people and communities heal, repair, and care for one another in the wake of disparate forms of racial and gender violence.