Rebekah Baril was born and raised over the hill in Barre Town. She received her BS in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont in 2003. After a three year period of teaching at a junior boarding school in Lake Placid New York, she returned to Vermont where she began working as a science and math teacher. She joined the staff at Washington in 2010 as a middle school math and science teacher. Rebekah lives with her family and cantankerous rat terrier, Walter, in Moretown.