As Administrative Director of the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice, Alessandra Rose works closely with the organization’s founder, Board, and partners to promote the organization’s mission to create opportunities for greater understanding about the criminal justice system in the United States.

With a deep commitment to creating criminal justice form, Alessandra has worked closely on a variety of projects and programs with the Osborne Association, the Prisoner Reentry Institute at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the Reentry Acceleration Program of the Tamer Center at Columbia Business School, Artistic Noise, and Resilience Education—all leading non-profit providers of services for the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated.

Previously, Alessandra served as Deputy Executive Director at Hour Children, a non-profit dedicated to supporting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children. Prior to assuming this role, Alessandra was Hour Children’s Development Director and a member of the organization’s Board of Directors. Additionally, she also served as Director of The Children’s Center at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility—a world-renowned program that provides innovative and comprehensive family service programs for incarcerated women and their children.

In 2005, Alessandra founded the Maggie Rose Perinatal Bereavement Program, a program of the Bereavement Center of Westchester, and continues to provide fundraising support for the program, as well as for the Charlie Rose Memorial Scholarship at Endeavor Therapeutic Horsemanship.

Alessandra holds a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.