Rebecca Moesta Anderson was born in
West Germany to American parents, and raised in
Pasadena, California, where she lived until her early twenties. She graduated with a
Bachelor of Liberal Arts from
California State University, Los Angeles. Shortly after her graduation, she married a recently graduated physicist from nearby
Caltech, becoming Rebecca Moesta Cowan. In 1981, the couple moved to
New Haven, Connecticut, where they lived for one year until they moved to
Darmstadt, West Germany, living there until 1987. In West Germany, Moesta took graduate courses with
Boston University and earned a Master of Science degree in Business Administration. During their stay in West Germany she gave birth to her son, Jonathan, before moving back to the United States and settling in
Livermore, California. ==Career==