Rebekah Staples

PRESIDENT & FOUNDER

Rebekah Staples is one of the foremost policy experts in the state of Mississippi. Over her 20 years of experience, she has served as a leading strategist for multiple elected officials and campaigns and has been a major contributor to significant policy and legislative transformations. She has accrued a bevy of state and national honors for her work in public policy and communications and in 2021 was named Mississippi's Under 40 Person of the Year by the Mississippi Business Journal. She was recognized as one of “Mississippi’s Top 50 Most Influential” in Business, Media, and Culture in 2019.  Rebekah is a Fellow of the second class of the national Civil Society Fellowship, a Partnership of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and The Aspen Institute, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. 

Rebekah serves as chairman of the Capitol Complex Improvement District Project Advisory Committee, a legislatively-created group tasked with providing guidance to the state on long-term investments in Mississippi’s Capitol City of Jackson.  A native of the “Free State of Jones,” Rebekah holds a bachelor’s degree from Mississippi College and a Master of Business Administration from Vanderbilt University.