Tri-cities Influencer Podcast With Paul Casey

Podcast 15 Rebekah Woods Dr. Rebekah Woods is the President of Columbia Basin College. A fun fact about her is she hates putting the leftovers into the containers when she goes to a restaurant, or she promised her husband that one day she would be in a Hall and Oates cover band. Paul and Rebekah met recently at a TC Regional Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Being a person of faith, she knows that her journey was planned and she knew early on that she wanted to be a doctor. While in college, she decided she did not want to be in school that long and after her undergrad, she decided to go to law school. Nobody ever says, “I want to be a higher ed administrator,” and no one even realizes that these jobs exist. While practicing law, she decided she needed another challenge and started working on her PhD. It was then that she started learning about community colleges and their mission. She fell in love with the focus of helping people reinvent themselves. She felt that she wanted to be a leader in the community colle