Rosa is a member of Peguis First Nation of Manitoba and is currently the President and CEO of the Indigenous Leadership Development Institute, Inc. in Manitoba. She was the Executive Director of Taking Charge! Inc. – a Federal and Provincial initiative for single parents to transition into the workforce. She was a Manger at the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs for Workplace Diversity and worked with the Bank of Montreal as Manager, workplace Equality for Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Rosa was a former Board Member of the National Aboriginal Economic Development Board, Board Member of Accreditation Canada, member of the Faculty of Business and Economic Alumni Committee and a member of the Global College Advisory Council both of the University of Winnipeg, she was the Chair of First People’s Economic Growth Fund.
Rosa is the recipient of the YM-YWCA Women of Distinction Award and was named in 2014 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100, She is the recipient of an Inspire Award in 2021.