Rochelle started her engagement with IARSCLE as a proposal reader. The opportunity led her to be invited to join the membership committee. She has been a board member since 2019. Rochelle brings career diversity, as a mid-career professional, with sixteen years of SLCE experience (both on- and off-campus), along with the practitioner-scholar lens as a current educational doctoral student. Rochelle has worked at public, private, and private/public land-grant universities facilitating community engagement programs (curricular and co-curricular).

As the Director of Experiential Learning at UC San Diego, Rochelle leads a dedicated student success team to increase access to and support of experiential learning inside and outside of the classroom for undergraduates and graduates. In collaboration with campus partners, Rochelle advocates for more integrated and holistic approach to student learning programs and services that are in alignment with institutional initiatives that closing the equity gaps for historically marginalized students and increase students’ readiness for post-university trajectories.

In addition to her national service with IARSLCE, she is  a member of the Research Collaborative of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) and serving as a CUMU conference journal co-editor for the Metropolitan Universities Journal. Rochelle earned her B.A in English from San José State University and her M.A. from New York University in Educational Leadership, Politics and Advocacy, both received with honors. Currently, she is an educational doctoral candidate at University of California, San Diego and California State University San Marcos. She is the recipient of the 2022 LEAD California Richard E. Cone Award for Emerging Leaders in Community Engagement.