Rosarie Tucci is the DRG Center Director. She has worked in a variety of positions supporting human rights and issues disproportionately affecting excluded populations. Most recently, she served as the director for Inclusive Societies, Peace Processes and Reconciliation at the U.S. Institute of Peace (2017-2021), deputy director for the Democracy, Rights and Governance (DRG) Center at USAID (2015-2017) and senior advisor to the Deputy Administrator of USAID (2011- 2015). Ro has worked to advance projects and policy on issues such as enhancing civic space, countering trafficking in persons, Rights of LGBTI and persons with disabilities, youth engagement, and atrocity prevention. She also provided strategic guidance on programs in countries such as Colombia, South Sudan, Ukraine, CAR and Yemen.
Tucci was a Fulbright Scholar in Sofia, Bulgaria examining the development of the human rights movement in a transitional democracy. She holds a master's of law in international human rights law from the University of Nottingham and a bachelor's in political science and communications from Boston College.