Maria Teresa Rojas

Maria Teresa Rojas is Director of the International Migration Initiative at the Open Society Foundations, which she joined in 2000 initially as Associate Director for Communications, and then served as Deputy Director of the U.S. Justice Fund. Before assuming her current position, she directed the U.S. immigrant rights portfolio. Prior to joining OSF, Maria Teresa was the Director of Communications for the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, and the first General Manager of New York City’s Crosswalks Television Network, where she built from the ground up five municipal cable channels and instituted unprecedented coverage of local government proceedings. Maria Teresa holds an MPA from Bernard M. Baruch College of The City University of New York and a BA in communications from Rutgers University. She is a National Urban Fellow, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at the University of New South Wales.