Rebecca McDonald

Founder and CEO Library For All

Rebecca McDonald is an award-winning global authority on the nexus of technology and education for low-connectivity environments across the Global South. Rebecca leads a dynamic, diverse, and committed team of literacy advocates, authors, technologists, and change-makers focused on supplying digital books and educational products for millions of children largely disconnected from the traditional publishing and educational ecosystem. As Founder and CEO of the nonprofit Library For All Rebecca engages an international network of advocates, program offices, and strategic partners to deliver innovative multilingual ed-tech software and hardware to the world’s vulnerable youth. Rebecca’s expertise spans technology-based educational tools for remote communities, Software as a Service (SaaS) product development, digital-first publishing and distribution of illustrated children’s books. A humanitarian at heart, Rebecca dedicates her life to the belief that reading is a basic human right, disrupting industry and educational norms to move books, knowledge, and opportunity into the hands of today’s children and tomorrow’s leaders.