Fielding Welcomes Dr. Rosa Cho to the Human and Organizational Development Faculty

Rosa Cho, Ph.D.

On July 10th, the Human and Organizational Development (HOD) Fielding community welcomed our newest faculty member, Dr. Rosa Cho. Rosa is a multi-faceted professional with experience in human rights and socioeconomic justice advocacy. She draws from a background of successful research and coalition work with diverse stakeholders, including grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, researchers, and policy-thinkers. Dr. Cho earned her Ph.D. in Social Work from New York University’s Silver School of Social Work and her Master’s in Social Work with a concentration in Services for Immigrants and Refugees from Columbia University. Originally from California, Rosa has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from UC Berkeley.

Rosa’s professional experiences (2000 – 2017) included providing domestic violence counseling for the New York Asian Women’s Center; offering counseling services and providing casework for the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster victims; serving as a Research Fellow for Amnesty International USA’s Human Rights Fellowship Program; working as a Policy and Research Analyst for the National Council for Research on Women (Re: Gender); and as a Counselor/Advocate for the Urban Justice Center’s Sex Workers’ Project.

Emerging from her Ph.D. studies and earned doctorate, Rosa’s academic journey includes having been a lecturer at New York University, where she taught courses on domestic violence and social deviance and authored manuscripts for scholarly journals; working as Assistant Program Chair at the Pratt Institute Social Science and Cultural Studies Department where she hired and supervised faculty, developed program initiatives, conducted research and taught courses. Since 2021 Rosa has been the Bachelor’s in Social Work Program Director for Simmons University School of Social Work, where she monitored academic standards, curriculum, and accreditation requirements, supervised faculty, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Social Work. Dr. Cho’s research interests are on poverty, inequality, labor, globalization, and qualitative research – especially as they intersect with race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class in the U.S. and globally.

Rosa has a lot of respect for Fielding’s history and philosophy and is thrilled about working with and learning from FGU’s scholars, practitioners and changemakers. And she is always open to chatting about research ideas or passion projects over a long walk – or a run (even virtually).