is a Latina/Bilingual Psychoanalyst who is a first born American to Central American immigrants. She is the former Co-Director of Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis and former Director of the One Year Program in Psychoanalysis and the Sociopolitical World. As the Founder and Co-Chair of CORE (Committee on Race and Ethnicity), her leadership and vision was instrumental in institutional change which was informed by racial and social justice. Rossanna is a trailblazer and leader who initiated various projects nationwide and locally in New York City that centered on social justice issues, specifically the experience of BIPOC in analytic spaces. She co-authored "The Secret Society: Perspectives from a Multiracial Cohort," with Chanda Griffin and Julie Hyman in 2020, and contributed to the Division 39, Division/Review 2022 Winter series on Community Psychoanalysis with her article, "Abandoning the Analytic Frame." Here piece, "Legacies from the Trauma of Immigration, Violence, Loss & Shame," appears in Salberg & Grand edited book Transgenerational Trauma (2024). She served on the Board of Division 39- Section 9 Psychoanalysis and Social Responsibility as one of the Co-Editors of the section's newsletter, The Psychoanalytic Activist and as a Soliciting Editor for ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action. She is the Co-Founder of Psychoanalytic Coalition of Social Justice (formerly Inter-Institute Task Force) which was an institutional collaborative of over a dozen institutes in New York City to genuinely address racism and white supremacy in analytic training. Since 2018, in response to the immigration crisis, she provides immigration evaluations, and more recently to those being held by ICE at detention centers in the New York area. She is a member of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and is a volunteer evaluator for Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights (WCCHR) in New York City. She is Faculty, Supervisor and Training Analyst at Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, NIP (National Institute for the Psychotherapies) and The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center in New York City and at PINC in San Francisco. She currently facilitates a clinical supervision group for clinicians of color. Her primary interests center at the intersections of sociopolitical issues, including immigration, race, Latinidad, acculturation/assimilation coupled with interdisciplinary ideas that augment analytic practice.