Rebecca Ann Jarvis[1] (born September 28, 1981)[2][3][4] is an American journalist and former investment banker.

[7] Jarvis graduated from St. Paul Academy and Summit School in 1999 and the University of Chicago in 2003, studying economics and Law, Letters, and Society.

She was honored for raising over $750,000 for her own non-profit children's charity—a project that also involved Al Gore and Colin Powell, which she set up at 15.

She was on crutches for the rest of the competition, which took 39 days to tape in the spring of 2005, but was fully able to walk by the time of the live season finale seven months later.

[10] Jarvis was a short-term interest rate trader on Citigroup's foreign exchange desk in London.

[8] Jarvis has worked in both investment banking and foreign currency trading, but left financial services to pursue a career in journalism.

On March 7, 2006, the business news channel CNBC announced it would be hiring Jarvis as an associate reporter.

[11] She was a general assignment reporter based at CNBC's world headquarters, and covered NASDAQ and the NYMEX.