WHAT MAKES THIS WORK DIFFERENT?
Rosa Equity Collaborative does not approach equity as a checklist, performance, or one-time training. We support clients in building strategies that are specific, relational, practical, and accountable. This means naming power clearly, centering community wisdom, recognizing cultural and emotional labor, and translating reflection into action.
WHAT WE DO
About Dr. Joanna Rosa
Joanna Rosa, DrPH, LPCC, LADC is the founder of Rosa Equity Collaborative. She is a public health practitioner, licensed mental health clinician, qualitative researcher, consultant, facilitator, and equity-centered strategist.
Her work is shaped by public health, behavioral health, racial equity, Black feminist thought, community engagement, leadership development, and systems change. Her doctoral research, Leading for Resistance: How Black Women Succeed in Healthcare Leadership, explored how Black women healthcare leaders navigate structural inequity, emotional labor, racialized professionalism, and leadership survival while maintaining agency, dignity, and purpose.
Dr. Rosa brings a relational, reflective, and systems-oriented approach to her work. She supports people and organizations in naming what is misaligned, honoring lived experience as knowledge, and building strategies that are practical, accountable, and rooted in care.