Vanessa Calderón-Rosado, Ph.D., is the Chief Executive Officer of Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA), a Boston-based community action organization founded in 1968 to develop low- and moderate-income housing, provide support services to families, and promote and preserve Latino artistic expression. Dr. Calderón-Rosado has considerable experience with a wide range of community development issues. During her tenure, IBA has completed a dramatic operational and programmatic turnaround. Dr. Calderón-Rosado has implemented a strategy that has resulted in a stronger organization that is now poised to take a more active role in the public policy issues affecting Latinos in Boston and Massachusetts. Dr. Calderón-Rosado has several years of research experience managing a large multi-site longitudinal study on the health of women from diverse ethnic backgrounds. In addition, she has studied differences between minority and European American elderly and their caregivers, particularly the expression of burden among ethnic minority caregivers and patterns of exchange of support between these caregivers and the elders. She also has investigated predictors and patterns of utilization of community long-term care and post-acute health services among minority frail elders, including Puerto Rican elders in Massachusetts, and factors that affect cancer disparities. She has lectured extensively on ethnic diversity issues in the workplace, especially in the nursing home environment, and its impact on quality of care.
She has many years of teaching experience as Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Social Work. As a Puerto Rican born on the island, Dr. Calderón-Rosado is committed to advance the policy issues affecting Latinos and other underserved populations. She received her doctorate in Public Policy on Aging at the Gerontology Center, University of Massachusetts at Boston. She lives in Milton, Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons.
Vanessa Calderón-Rosado, Ph.D., is the Chief Executive Officer of Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA), a Boston-based community action organization founded in 1968 to develop low- and moderate-income housing, provide support services to families, and promote and preserve Latino artistic expression. Dr. Calderón-Rosado has considerable experience with a wide range of community development issues. During her tenure, IBA has completed a dramatic operational and programmatic turnaround. Dr. Calderón-Rosado has implemented a strategy that has resulted in a stronger organization that is now poised to take a more active role in the public policy issues affecting Latinos in Boston and Massachusetts. Dr. Calderón-Rosado has several years of research experience managing a large multi-site longitudinal study on the health of women from diverse ethnic backgrounds. In addition, she has studied differences between minority and European American elderly and their caregivers, particularly the expression of burden among ethnic minority caregivers and patterns of exchange of support between these caregivers and the elders. She also has investigated predictors and patterns of utilization of community long-term care and post-acute health services among minority frail elders, including Puerto Rican elders in Massachusetts, and factors that affect cancer disparities. She has lectured extensively on ethnic diversity issues in the workplace, especially in the nursing home environment, and its impact on quality of care. 
