Rosa Peralta
Senior Program Officer for Equity Impact
Satterberg Foundation
Rosa is the Senior Program Officer of Equity Impact at the Satterberg Foundation. Prior to joining the Satterberg Foundation, Rosa worked in the fields of civil rights, juvenile justice, education and healthcare. Her life’s work focuses on developing tools and standards to improve and increase collaboration among public institutions, nonprofit organizations and foundations to promote programs and systems that protect and advance the rights of youth and the BIPOC community. Rosa considers herself a ‘philanthropic infiltrator’ where she challenges the orthodoxy of the philanthropic sector from the inside out. She believes that the people most affected by injustice must play a central role in their own liberation and this includes challenging and holding accountable the philanthropic sector.
Rosa volunteers her time at several nonprofits. She was appointed by Washington State Governor Inslee to serve on the Board of Trustees for Seattle Colleges, where she currently serve as President of the Board.
Rosa came to United States as an undocumented farm worker from Mexico and has lived in Seattle, Washington for more than 20 years. Rosa holds sociology degrees from Whitman College (BA) and the University of Michigan (MA) where she is a PhD candidate.
