Rebecca Pasternack graduated with a Masters of Architecture from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. In the interim, she worked for three years as a design associate at Drisko Studio Architects in Santa Monica, California, where she contributed to the restoration of an 18,000 square foot home in the historic West Adams District of Los Angeles. She has also interned at Arquitectonica in New York, where she worked on a residential high-rise tower in Queens. Rebecca maintains membership in the American Institute of Architects, where she was honored for an essay about sustainable architecture. She is also a member of the Association for Women in Architecture, where she won a merit-based academic scholarship. In addition, Rebecca is currently completing the Architectural Record Examinations and the Intern Development program as part of the licensure process.

Most recently, Rebecca won two traveling fellowships, the Gesundheit Family Traveling Fellowship, and the RTKL Traveling Fellowship for her research topic of Aquatecture, water-based architecture in the Netherlands. Currently, she works as a design associate at KPF in New York City and as an architectural critic for Sha-ken, an online Japanese architectural and design magazine.