At the Tuesday Sept. 3 City Council meeting, Mayor Katrina Foley presented Costa Mesa High School student Rebekah Robeck with the Mayor’s Award to honor her for being the founder of the Let’s Be Kind movement that has taken off throughout the school district.

Rebekah started the movement by sharing 200 slices of pizza to her Costa Mesa Middle School classmates.

Click here to learn about her organization.

“Tonight we are very honored to recognize Rebekah,” Mayor Foley said. “She has raised more than $9,000 to purchase 2,100 Let’s Be Kind T- shirts for every student, faculty, and staff member on both Costa Mesa Middle School and High School campuses. The program has since spread to several other campuses in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District and is projected to reach more than 20,000 students across more than 30 campuses this year.”

For more about Rebekah watch the video below.