Dr. Rosa Colon-Kolacko was appointed to the Delaware Hispanic Commission by Governor Jack Markell in 2011.

Dr. Colon-Kolacko is the President and Founder of Global Equity and Learning Partners, LLC, a consulting practice that designs and implements inclusion, racial and health equity, human capital, talent development, cultural transformation, and change management strategies to build equitable and learning organizations. She has over 25 years’ experience in Global Pharmaceuticals, Health Systems, Academia, Government and Nonprofit.

She is the former Tufts Medicine, Senior VP, Chief Diversity and Equity and Inclusion Officer responsible for advancing diversity, racial and health equity, inclusion, and Community Health, former NYC Health + Hospitals SVP and Chief People Officer, and Christiana Care Health System in Delaware, SVP Chief Diversity and Learning Officer as one of the first CDO’s in healthcare. Earlier in her career she worked at Bristol Myers-Squibb and, SmithKline Beecham (since renamed GlaxoSmithKline), leading change, cultural transformation, supply chain, IT Implementations (SAP, EPIC, Workday) learning and talent management, and lean/six sigma functions in Asia, Europe, North America, and Puerto Rico.

Rosa is incredibly involved in national and state level boards to advance equity. She is the President of the Board of the MA Health Equity Compact, Inc. an organization member composed of 80+ C-Suite leaders of color advancing the agenda through legislation, workforce development, governance, data, and access to care. In addition, is a board member of the national (AAAED), LEAD Fund for Leadership, Equity, Access and Diversity and the past President of the Board of directors of the Delaware Latin America Community Center. Rosa is former member of New York City Health and Hospitals Equity Coalition, Philadelphia Collaborative for Health Equity,  AHA Institute for Diversity in Health Management now IFDHE Executive Leadership Council, and the board of National Association of Latino Healthcare Executive.

She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Development and Change from Benedictine University, an MBA from Henley Business School, University of Reading England, a post-graduate Marketing Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, London, Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) from the Society of Human Resources Management and a Certificate in Diversity Management (CDM) from Georgetown University and the AHA Institute for Diversity and Health Equity.

She is a researcher and has held Academic positions as Professor of Professional Practice at Bowling Green State University, adjunct faculty at Georgetown University, University of Delaware, Thomas Jefferson University where she was also a designer and faculty of the Graduate Certificate of Healthcare Diversity Leadership.  Tufts School of Medicine partner in advancing DEI and health equity education. Institute of School of Continuous and Professional Studies. She is also an Equity Fellow of the Delaware Community Foundation.