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Rosa is a lawyer, turned environmentalist, turned operations and people manager with a passion for diversity, equity and inclusion in the sustainability sector. She is no stranger to pivoting on her professional journey and is dedicated to mentoring others who are navigating the next steps in their careers.
She's Peruvian-American, and spent many years learning the hiring practices favored in many Western and international spaces. Today, with over ten years of experience gathered from her own nontraditional international career, Rosa is a hiring manager who challenges conventional hiring practices. But she also understands just how often this kind of information is gatekept - and the importance of everyone having access to this knowledge and how to navigate the (often unwritten) rules and expectations of recruitment processes.
That's why she's thrilled to host The Bloom's new monthly series, Open Door Mentorship From a Social Impact Hiring Manager, for access to a safe space where you can ask real questions and get real answers from industry leaders and recruiters.
To RSVP for Rosa's mentorship event on February 27, register for our social impact careers platform and head over the "Community & Networking Events" – apply for sponsored membership if you need financial support following the same link 🥰 💸
For early career professionals, check out the podcast "New Here" from Harvard Business Review. Whether it’s your first job or a fresh start, “New Here” is the young professional's guide to work — and how to make it work for you. Career experts and friends share stories, tips, and advice that will help you build a meaningful career on your own terms.
🌳 Fellowships
Caribbean Climate Justice Leaders: For young Caribbean activists and community leaders to learn about Climate Justice, engage with global policymakers, and promote climate action. Selected participants will be fully funded to travel to the UN’s COP29. Net Zero Scholarship: Program for young innovators to join the One Young World Summit 2024 in Montréal. Global Citizen Scholarship: Virtual scholarship program that empowers young African change-makers to address one or more of the SDGs in their community by proposing and implementing a localized SDG Micro-Project, a summer school, peer-to-peer mentoring and various expert trainings and workshops on specific topics.
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What is your “official” professional role and field?
I am honored to have joined The Bloom as a Content and Community Coordinator. My work over the last 11 years has spanned Marketing, Communications and Community for enviro-social change, with a focus on sustainability, from seafood to finance to scuba diving.
I’ve also held various titles within Hospitality and Travel and Tourism, worked as a Divemaster and Coral Gardener and as of late am paving my way as a Writer and Spoken Word poet.
My experiences have taught me that our power lies in multi-dimensional growth and that true connection, joy and learning in all facets of life are cultivated by the collective.
What is your unofficial role and field?
I prefer to refer to my primary field as storytelling. This is because I grew up with experience of oral tradition, hearing stories about animals that taught me important morals from my nanah (grandad on my mum’s side). Later, moved by reading and watching inspiring stories, I strongly believe that it is storytelling that creates transformation in human behavior and the world. Successful communications and marketing are storytelling done right. More importantly, it’s storytelling and sharing with vulnerability that lies at the heart of human connection and authentic community How did you get to where you are today in your career?
In one sentence, through uncovering and learning how to follow my intuition and chasing what set my soul on fire, despite what others said or where I was at in life.
After completing my English Literature degree, I took time to fully heal my eating disorder and mental health while waitressing. Then, I went backpacking for a few months and was healed and changed by travel, nature - especially the ocean and mostly, the warmth of communities and communal living. As someone who grew up within a religion and culture that focused on giving and community, I found Western living and teachings at odds with who I am. I felt too Eastern for the West and too Western for the East and my travels re-lit the power of connection, to God, to people, to nature, to life.
Struggling to find my first job in social impact, I landed an Environmental Leadership Program learning opportunity with UpRising UK, a social mobility charity for youth. This opened the door to my first job in marine conservation where I eventually wanted to be the scuba diver in the picture I was Photoshopping, so I started asking around in Facebook groups. From this, I was headhunted for a scuba diving certification and marketing and communications development and skills exchange programme in Indonesia. I took these opportunities, continued on my path and never looked back.
The common thread between my different but intertwined career paths, from Marketing, Communications and Community for enviro-social change to various roles in Hospitality, Travel and Tourism and the scuba diving and creative industries is connection. From insightful, deep conversations as a barista to writing moving stories of fisherpeople that inspire people and businesses to support marine conservation, it is togetherness that drives growth and joy. I enjoyed working primarily in environmental charities and for purpose-driven businesses, growing communities and communications for a better world but struggled with the lack of diversity in these spaces. I worked to improve representation and elevate minorities in many previous organizations but was tired of the bureaucracy and walking this path often alone. Growing and mobilizing women and minorities in social impact through The Bloom felt like a natural next step and I am so grateful and excited to help grow a space that I wish I had when starting in the sector. 🎤 Podcasts?
Motiv8 - The Motivation and Inspiration Podcast - It does exactly what it says. On days I’m time-short but want to learn something new and perhaps need a little boost, this always does the job. Short snippets, including tips, from a variety of guests that have tangibly helped me better myself.
✅Accounts I follow:
@melaninbasecamp - As an outdoorsy British-Indian-Muslim woman who has solo-travelled and lived in various countries, from hiking a volcano in Guatemala to becoming a scuba diving professional in Indonesia, this community affirms my right to take up space in often white-dominant spaces and was/ is a page and community I turn to when I need the reminder.
@browngirltherapy - The largest mental health community for children of immigrants. I have experienced a lot of therapy and felt the difference of and need for a POC therapist. This account brings the struggles of women of color together and empowers our growth collectively.
📚Books?
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Early in my career and working primarily in environment and conservation, I experienced racism and was negatively affected by white feminism. Before the times of George Floyd, when many in the UK denied the existence of racism, this book changed my life and made me feel heard. I felt emotionally exhausted and hurt constantly educating others, especially white women in denial of choosing their whiteness over their sex, and instead recommended this book for my wellness.
All About Love: New Visions - This reaffirmed my definition of love as the balance of self-growth and supporting the growth of others. In a society where many rely on romantic relationships in unhealthy ways for fulfilment, this shares the importance of healthy love in all facets of life including relationships, from romantic, to sisterhood, the self and most importantly, community. Meet and grab a virtual coffee with Aneesa in The Bloom ☀️
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🌟 Social Impact Employer Spotlight
Huquqyat is an organization of self-identifying women lawyers and legal practitioners that have a personal or professional engagement in legal accountability processes in Syria. They aim to render justice processes more inclusive to the different ways in which women are subjected to and affected by the commission of international crimes, through promoting a gendered approach to the case work developed, the methodologies adopted in the investigative work, the legal issues addressed, and the witnesses and survivors approached, and, in turn, to the global narrative and understanding of relevant justice frameworks. Check out their open role below in The Bloom's job board.
Email team@readtobloom.com to feature your organization and job openings to 40,000 diverse and talented bloomers around the world. Warning: spicy sidenote comments might appear when we want to *extra* express how much we love these job openings 🌶️ ASIA + OCEANIA 🇦🇺 Interview coordinator – JOY Media Partnerships manager – InfoXchange 🇮🇳 Gender specialist – The Quantum Hub
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