Email: srosalesfike@ggu.edu

Sylvia Rosales-Fike has spearheaded social and economic development nationally and internationally for 40 years. She is the founder, President Emeritus, and former CEO of AnewAmerica Community Corporation in Oakland, California, launching the first SBA Women Business Centers serving immigrants in the Bay Area. She ran the Central American Resource Center in Washington, DC, providing legal representation and advocacy for refugees and led the development of the No Human Being Is Illegal campaign. She testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, debating Senator Alan Simpson, a fierce opponent of relief for people fleeing U.S.-funded wars in Central America.

Professor Rosales-Fike’s experience includes commercial and nonprofit ventures like Community Bank of the Bay, The Unity Council’s Community Collaborative, and private property management. She is a current executive board member of The Mauricio Aquino Foundation and past board member of the National Association for Enterprise Opportunity, California Association of Microenterprise Opportunity, California Reinvestment Coalition, California Women’s Foundation, Katalysis Microfinance, and chair of the Community Advisory Board of Union Bank of California.

Professor Rosales-Fike is a recipient of the prestigious San Francisco Foundation’s Community Leadership Award and the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Microenterprise Advocate of the Year, 1986 special profile by the Washington Post, 2007 ABC-KGO TV Profiles of Excellence, Alameda County 2007 Women’s Hall of Fame, Costa Times’ 2007 Women Who Rule in the East Bay and others. Ms. Rosales-Fike holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School, a Master in Culture and Spirituality from Holy Names University, and a B.A. in Sociology from the Central American University of El Salvador.