Rebecca Arce

About Rebecca

I grew up in Recife, Brazil, going to a local Portuguese-speaking school, but since my dad is American, I always had one foot in the US. Going abroad for college felt like the natural next step. I landed in Boston for computer engineering at BU and, like many people that go to school here, never left. I was a numbers kid from early on, the kind who genuinely liked math homework, and quickly became the friend people came to when they were stuck. Engineering felt inevitable. I then pivoted out of conventional engineering work after an internship at Wayfair, where I got my first real experience working at a big company. Working with data felt important, impactful and kept me surrounded by numbers all the time. I never strayed far from coaching and mentoring though. In college I worked as a technology ambassador, teaching engineering principles to local high school students. Then after graduating I joined Springboard as a data analytics mentor. I even considered becoming a teacher full-time. That pull toward helping people learn and grow never really went away. Outside of work, I'm a soccer/football fanatic (big Brazil/Real Madrid fan), a runner, and a pretty okay guitar player. I also travel a lot, a habit from childhood, since my dad lived abroad and I spent years going back and forth. I think that early experience of adapting to new places and figuring things out on the fly shaped how I approach problems, both in my career and now in coaching others. I know what it's like to make a big, uncertain pivot like moving countries, switching fields, betting on something that isn't the obvious path, and I like helping people navigate that same kind of leap into analytics with a little more clarity than I had.