Who we are:

Rose Charities NY, Inc is run mainly by volunteers who want to make a difference. We are professionals from the fashion and art community in New York City and we use our skills and contacts to create events that raise awareness and funds for the Rose Charities projects worldwide. Our primary focus is to help children and young adults who have suffered through poverty, disaster, exploitation or lack of opportunity. The projects we support have strong local leaders and local volunteers who find their own solutions for their communities. These communities are able to stretch a small donation to achieve miracles.

2011 Board of Directors:

Renata Noot Seear – President

Renata has been a successful fashion model in New York since 1997 and has worked worldwide with top fashion houses and photographers. She has hosted several fund-raising events.

Rachel Greene – Executive Director

Rachel Greene joined Rose Charities in March 2010 by helping with the FOTORELIEF event for Haiti. Shortly after, she joined the board of Rose Charities US. Since then she has traveled to Cambodia for the Rose International meeting and helped to establish the Rose Physical Therapy Center in Takhmao in the Kandal Province of Cambodia.

Jason Rosenstock – Treasurer

Jason is an artist, photographer and filmmaker with a Masters degree in Art Education from NYU. He has many years experience volunteering with autistic children. He is the principle organizer of the “Our Voices” program.

Josephine De Freitas – Secretary

Josephine de Freitas has spent 25 years in international development starting with a war widow’s cooperative in Zimbabwe in 1978. In 1994 she volunteered at the BC Children’s Hospital to create their International Health Programs and initiated projects in South Africa and Guyana. In 1996 she assisted UBC to develop the Centre for International Health and organized the “Bridging the Pacific” APEC conference on distance education. In 2004 she managed the CIDA funded project in Guyana “Strengthening Public Health in Guyana,” a $5 million CIDA funded project on HIV/AIDS and TB.

Directors

Hunter Barnes

Hunter is a successful photographer. He has hosted several exhibitions of his work in New York and internationally. In 2007 he traveled to the Rose Charities project in Sri Lanka where his camera documented the hardships of a Tamil community. He subsequently raised money for Rose Charities through his exhibition of this work called “A World Away.” Hunter Barnes has spent 3 years working with and photographing the Nee Mee Poo People in Oregon. He worked with Jason to bring the “Our Voices” project to the community in May 2009.

John Gettings

John Gettings is a photographer living and working in New York City. Before joining the Rose Charities Board he founded FOTORELIEF a not-for-profit fundraising organization based in NYC. In addition, John has also worked as a consultant on a number of other fundraising events over the years.

David Hemphill

Information to come.

Annie Henley

Annie is a successful NY model and fashion designer. She launched her clothing line of surf wear in 2007. She was co-producer of two NY fund-raising fashion shows for Rose Charities and has traveled to Cambodia and Vietnam to review the Rose Charities projects there.

John Lego

John Lego is an attorney-at-law with the company Kudman Law. He provides many hours of donated time providing legal advice to Rose Charities NY, inc.

Mark Palmen

Mark Palmen has worked as a publicist, creative director and event planner for 15 years in Europe and The United States for such clients as Vivienne Westwood, Target, Adidas, Proctor & Gamble and Conde Nast  He has been a champion of young design talent in New York helping others achieve their goals.  He is a consultant to Phoenix Art Museum and serves as Director of Communication for FOTORELIEF an nonprofit event group that works closely with Rose Charities.

Masdek Rassi

Masdek is the CEO of Milk Studios. He has hosted numerous fundraising events at the Milk Gallery in New York. He was the personal sponsor of Tsunami Imprints, a fund-raiser for the youngest victims of the 2004 tsunami.