Heidi Rosano is a dynamic advancement professional with over 17 years of experience in higher education and non-profit leadership. She has served in a blend of externally facing roles as well as internal, service-oriented positions focused on fundraising and promoting philanthropy that changes lives. She currently serves as the senior director of donor stewardship at her alma mater, the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

Before joining UCI, Heidi served nearly a decade at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy where she obtained multiple roles with increasing responsibilities managing and overseeing events, programming, alumni relations, annual fund, engagement, communications, and stewardship. Prior to her work at USC Price, Heidi worked at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the American Cancer Society where she led teams to raise funds through community support, events, and corporate giving campaigns.

Heidi has a proven track record of analyzing, enhancing, and centralizing processes by creating databases, training documents, onboarding materials, and launching internal councils and communications making her a go-to person known for collaboration and teamwork across the organizations she has worked for.

In addition to being a UCI Anteater with a degree in political science, Heidi graduated from Cal State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) with a master’s degree in public administration focused on non-profit organizational behavior and theory.