About Rosie

Rosie Rios is the CEO of Red River Associates, a real estate investment  management firm. She was the 43rd Treasurer of the United States where she  initiated and led the efforts to place a portrait of a woman on the front of U.S.  currency for the first time in over a century. Upon her resignation in 2016, she  received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the U.S. Department of  the Treasury. Rosie was the longest serving Senate-confirmed Treasury official  beginning with her time on the Treasury/Federal Reserve Transition Team in  November 2008 at the height of the financial crisis. Following her tenure, she was  appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at  Harvard University with a focus on Millennials and Post-Millennials. Most recently  she was honored in August 2020 as one of USA Today’s Women of the Century. 

Rosie is a graduate of Harvard University and was selected as the first Latina in  Harvard’s 384-year history to have a portrait commissioned in her honor. She  currently serves on the board of American Family Insurance, Fidelity Charitable  Trust, the Schlesinger Council at Harvard, the Advisory Committee for Artemis Real  Estate Partners and was previously a Trustee with the Alameda County Employees  Retirement Association (ACERA). Most recently, she was appointed as a member  of America 250, a Congressional Commission to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding in 2026. Her personal passion includes  EMPOWERMENT 2020, an initiative that facilitates the physical recognition of  historical American women. She remains active in real estate finance and is  consulting on several transformational projects in the Bay Area under her  “RESCUE” initiative: Real Estate for Socially Conscious Urban Empowerment.