Rose Harvey

The Dodge Foundation welcomes Rose Harvey as its newest member of the Board of Trustees. Rose is a senior fellow at the Jonathan Rose Companies, focusing on park and open space projects. She is also researching the feasibility of an urban green space “fund” to finance the design and development of high impact, large scale, park, garden and greenway projects that will benefit our cities’ underserved communities.

Previously with the Trust for Public Land, Rose’s career spanned twenty-seven years there. She began as a community organizer, and then as Project Manager/Senior Project Manager (to purchase land), Vice-President and State and Area Director, Senior Vice President and Regional Director of the Mid-Atlantic Region (eight state region) and finally as National Director of Urban Programs. As Regional Director (17 years), she lead a 50 person region that, each year, purchased about $75 million of conservation lands and, annually designed and developed 10 to 12 new urban parks with and for underserved communities. Under her leadership, TPL’s Mid- Atlantic Region (with community partners) designed and developed over 300 city parks, gardens and playgrounds, and purchased over a billion dollars of conservation lands, including 780 new and enhanced regional, rural and metropolitan parks.

Rose holds a B.A. from Colorado College and an M.E.S. from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES). She was recently a Yale McCluskey Fellow and Lecturer, and resides in New York City with her family. In addition to the Dodge board, she has served on numerous boards and Advisory Councils, including Yale FES Leadership Council and the Appalachian Mountain Club. Her hobbies include family excursions, scuba diving, tennis, biking, hiking and cooking.