Rosa’s career has focused on creating programs and services, expanding and enhancing strategies, and leading organizational development efforts toward growth, effectiveness, and innovation within an equity framework.
She is the chief talent and learning officer at Urban Health Plan, a position targeted to developing and promoting opportunities for associates, focusing on leadership and workforce development and alignment, education, learning, and culture. She is a key partner and leader in strategy and partnership development to build and enhance the organization further. Her work also addresses the communities served by the Urban Health Plan, including the development of a place-based initiative focusing on building healthy and livable communities and a food insecurity program.
Prior to her work at UHP, she was the chief program officer at the Educational Alliance, one of the oldest settlement houses in the country, and founder and director of the community school initiative and its national center at Children’s Aid. She has served as a thinking partner and consultant to major organizations across the country. Rosa has taught, lectured and presented at conferences across the country and abroad, including the Primary Care Association of Arkansas, the Primary Care Association of Pennsylvania, National Association for Community Health Centers, Grantmakers in Healthcare, Community Health Centers Association of New York State, Association of Clinicians for the Underserved, National Council of La Raza/UnidosUS, Bank Street College, Harvard Graduate School of Education, New York University School of Social Work, National Institute on Care and Welfare, The Netherland where she worked for a few years. Rosa was an Affiliated Assistant Medical Professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine at CUNY’s School of Medicine.
She is chair of the board of Hunts Point Alliance for Children, secretary of the board and chair of the education committee of Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health & Science Charter School (co-founder); and has served the Business Intelligence Board of Chief Learning Officer Magazine, and on the Executive Research Board of the Human Capital Media. She has served as a judge for the Diversity Value Index program of Diversity Executive and as judge for enterprise applications for LearningElite.
Rosa recently served as subject matter expert on HRSA’s Technical Advisory Panel for Workforce Well-Being Survey Development and is currently on the National Association of Community Health Center’s (NACHC) Committee on Health Center Excellence and Training and on its Innovation Subcommittee. She is also a member of the Health Center Workforce Diversity Data and Metrics National Advisory Group convened by NACHC in collaboration with The George Washington University Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity.
She has a master’s degree from New York University and a MEd from Columbia University Teachers College where she was a fellow; she is also a graduate of Columbia University Business School in executive not for profit management, is a certified rehabilitation counselor (CRC) and a certified psychotherapist.
