Rebecca Schaper

Rebecca Schaper is an author, philanthropist, mental health advocate, and filmmaker.

Her second book, Roses to Rainbow: My Dog Gus in the Afterlife, tells about her soul contract with her beloved dog. She has such a keen, subjective eye that she calls herself an “intuitive photographer.” Kyle Tekiela co-produced and directed the award-winning documentary A Sister’s Call. The film chronicles her mission to bring her brother, Call Richmond Jr., back from the depths of homelessness and schizophrenia, all while seeking ways to heal herself and her family from the past. Her memoir The Light in His Soul: Lessons from My Brother’s Schizophrenia recounts the events in the film, supplemented by her intimate personal reflections on recovering from trauma and developing spiritual insight.

Rebecca has frequently appeared in public and media as a spokesperson for mental-health awareness and spiritual development, including presentations to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Vinfen community-based services, the NYC Mental Health Film Festival, Greenville Mental Health Center, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the First Presbyterian Church in Greenville, and the American Psychiatric Association (APA). She is a supporter of NAMI,(I am no longer working with NAMI) as well as benefactor of the Great Plains Foundation for African wildlife conservation, a family-assistance program in Kigali, Rwanda, a children’s school at the Drepung Gomang Monastery in Bhutan, and the Healing Center in Bali and indigenous children in Colombia South America. She was featured on Lee Harris Energy "Impact The World Podcast." She is one of the main supporters for Baaba Maal's organization called NANN-K.

She is also facilitating the global outreach efforts of the Last Inca Shamans Healing Association of Q’ero Nation in the Cusco region of Peru and helps periodically to support the indigenous children in Peru. She helped sponsor the film Ram Dass, Going Home by Derek Peck.

She makes her home with her husband Jim in Georgia.