 Rosalind Ross is
a Project Manager at Providence Community Housing—a non-profit
organization who fosters healthy, diverse and vibrant communities
by developing, operating and advocating for affordable, mixed-income
housing, supportive services and employment opportunities for individuals,
families, seniors and people with special needs.
With over seven years of professional and academic experience in
finance, economic development, real estate and public affairs, Ms.
Ross has parlayed her experience into many different sectors throughout
her career. Prior to the Rockefeller fellowship, she worked in the
asset management department at Thor Equities, LLC in New York City
conducting asset review analysis for retail shopping malls in urban
communities such as Baltimore, Atlanta, and New York City. As an
economic development associate with Union Square Partnership, a
business improvement district (BID) and local development corporation
in the Union Square neighborhood of New York City, she managed a
$2 million BID expansion project, which included creating a financial
feasibility model to assess additional revenues and expenses from
the expansion of the district boundaries. Concurrently, Ms. Ross
was a member of an 8-person consulting team to identify profitable
marketing strategies to strengthen a locally-owned credit union
in the Lower Eastside section of Manhattan as the provider of choice
for financial products and services for the underserved and immigrant
population in the community.
One of 64 individuals from across the nation, Ms. Ross participated
in the CORO Fellows Program in Pubic Affairs in San Francisco, CA.
As a CORO Fellow, she facilitated sessions on public finance and
education, spearheaded marketing projects for a Catholic hospital
system and developed an outreach plan to aid a parent-led advocacy
organization focused on the importance of continuing state-supported
childcare/daycare subsidies. Before the CORO fellowship, she worked
at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. as a corporate finance analyst, where
she analyzed over $6 billion of syndicated and leveraged debt in
industries such as consumer goods, insurance and automotive. As
part of a team responsible for successfully originating, syndicating
and executing investment grade and leveraged debt transactions,
Ms. Ross was the lead analyst in constructing and in managing the
financial models and analyses and the comparable transaction analyses
to determine the financing needs of companies. Most recently, she
completed designing and implementing a successful faith-based youth
leadership program for young girls in the Harlem New York community.
Ms. Ross received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Spelman
College, Atlanta, GA, and a Master of Urban Planning from the Robert
F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University
(NYU). While at NYU, she served as treasurer of the Wagner Student
Association and organized a panel discussion on the role of faith-based
institutions in economic community development. She also researched
and co-authored a paper on predatory lending and real estate fraud
in underserved, moderate-to-low income communities in New York City.
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