Executive Director
Friends of the Rail Park
Philadelphia, PA
Rebecca Cordes Chan, is the Executive Director of the Friends of the Rail Park, the organization dedicated to bringing the Rail Park– a vision for a 3 mile greenway and infrastructure reuse project– to life. Prior to joining the Rail Park, Rebecca was the program officer for the National Economic Development and Creative Placemaking programs at Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), where she managed a portfolio of projects focused on using arts- and culturally-based strategies as tools for inclusive economic development. Rebecca is a 2022-2023 Fulcrum Fellow at the Center for Community Investment, and has been recognized as a Funders Network PLACES Fellow, and a Fellow and Co-Facilitator of the Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators. She received her MS from the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design, and a BA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Monday, April 3, 2023
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM CDT
Friday, April 28, 2023
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM CDT