Rosie Arroyo joined the California Community Foundation (CCF) in 2007. Since then, she has dedicated her career to the educational and civic empowerment of underserved communities, spearheading a number of multisector, civic engagement initiatives to advance systems change policies.

At CCF, Rosie oversees the foundation’s Immigrant Integration portfolio which seeks to empower immigrants to thrive civically, economically and socially by promoting just and inclusive policies in Los Angeles County. This includes overseeing the Los Angeles Justice Fund (LAJF), a $7.9M public-private partnership between the City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, the Weingart Foundation and CCF to expand legal representation for immigrants in removal proceedings.

In addition to her work in immigration, Rosie played a leadership role in the development of a regional, multi-sector coalition known as the Early Childhood Alliance that seeks to ignite and lead a movement to advance the issue of early care and education (ECE) in L.A. County.

Widely considered a coalition builder, a change agent and effective communicator, Rosie began her career by working at LAUSD under the School Readiness Language Development Program (SRI-DP) and then went on to work for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund where she helped to lead an unprecedented and historic national citizenship campaign titled Ya es hora iCiudadania! As a key leader of the campaign, Rosie played a lead role in organizing more than 400 organizations nationwide to inform, educate and motivate over 1 million legal permanent residents to apply for U.S. citizenship.

Rosie is Board Chair of Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE), and was recently selected to be part of the 2019 California Influencer Series, an effort launched by the Sacramento Bee and other CA newspapers to encourage conversations between the public and leaders/influencers about the state’s most pressing public policy challenges and the solutions to them. Rosie is a member of the American Bar Foundation’s Network for Justice Advisory Committee, the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) Advisory Committee and is a fellow of the 2018 Latina Global Executive Leadership Program.

Rosie is a proud graduate from the California State University of Los Angeles and is completing a Masters in Public Administration from California State University Northridge.