Rebecca Schena (skee-nah) is a San Francisco-based jeweler, maker, writer, baker, and aspiring maximalist. She is the studio manager at Julia Turner Studio and a contributor to Metalsmith magazine, Current Obsession magazine, and Making Progress: Resources for Social Justice in Craft. She holds a BFA in jewelry and metalsmithing with a concentration in scientific inquiry from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She is currently working towards a certification in copyediting at the University of California Berkeley Extension.
Rebecca is interested in jewelry as a method of initiating political discourse and as a way of expressing, manipulating, or distorting social identity. She believes that a healthy dose of humor and blasphemy is necessary to invite us to approach critical subject matter. She is also the proud, sole member of the fictive Anal-Retentive Artists Guild, and hopes that someday she can afford a nice built-in bookshelf on which to display her thrift store mug collection.