Rose Ellen Greene
Rose Ellen Meyerhoff Greene grew up in Baltimore and for the past fifty-five years has lived in Coral Gables, Florida. A clinical therapist, she spent her career treating severely disturbed children and their families. Her involvement in various arts organizations has helped shape Miami-Dade’s cultural landscape. Rose Ellen’s extraordinary leadership and philanthropy in education, mental health, and the arts have earned her numerous community awards. Rose Ellen chaired the Miami-Dade Mental Health Board and assisted Teach for America for many years at an underserved elementary school in the Little Haiti neighborhood. She was Chairperson of the Board of Ransom-Everglades college preparatory school and serves on the Board of KIPP Miami. As a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami, she chairs the university-wide commission on Mental Health, Alcohol, and Other Substances. Rose Ellen has been actively involved in Miami’s art community and is celebrated for her pivotal role as a founding supporter of the Miami City Ballet. Her significant contributions as a Trustee of major cultural institutions that have defined Miami as a global arts city, include her service as Chairperson of the Board of the world-renowned New World Symphony and Chairperson of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, where she led the Board’s planning, design, and construction committees of the acclaimed Herzog & de Meuron building.