Rosie Hidalgo served as the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2023 until January of 2025, after previously serving as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor on Gender-Based Violence at the White House Gender Policy Council from 2021-2023. She also worked at OVW as Deputy Director for Policy from 2014-2017. Currently she is a Visiting Research Scholar in the Human Rights Program of the University of Miami School of Law. She also is a consultant serving as a Senior Advisor at the Battered Women’s Justice Project with the Re-Imagining CCR Initiative. Rosie has worked in the movement to end gender-based violence for over 30 years as a public interest attorney and as a national policy advocate. At the outset of her career, she provided direct civil legal services through non-profit organizations in New York and at Legal Services of Northern Virginia. Prior to her work at the White House, she was the Senior Director of Public Policy for Casa de Esperanza: National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities (now Esperanza United), a national resource center with a focus on providing training, research, and policy advocacy to prevent and end domestic violence and sexual assault. Rosie also served on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence. The daughter of immigrants, Rosie spent a total of 10 years as an adult living in three different countries in Latin America, including the Dominican Republic, where she helped establish and coordinate a community-based domestic violence prevention and intervention network and worked as a consultant for the World Bank on social services reforms. Rosie received her Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and her J.D. from New York University School of Law.