Rose Figueroa, PhD, CHFP

Rose Figueroa, PhD, CHFP

Dr. Rose Figueroa is a Board-Certified Human Factors Professional and Principal Consultant at Rimkus. She provides cognitive, perceptual, and physical human factors/ergonomics consulting to assist clients in the investigation and prevention of accidents and injuries, as well as in the evaluation of accidents in a wide range of settings, such as vehicle, motorcycle, pedestrian, micro-mobility, and trucking accidents; medical device or in-surgery injuries; industrial, occupational, and construction accidents; injuries associated with professional/consumer products, premises (i.e., slips, miss-steps, trips, and falls), ports and loading docks, cruises, recreational boat/watercraft/watersports, amusement park rides, and heavy machinery (i.e., forklift, boom/scissor lifts).

Trailblazing the path for the past decade, she has served as an active diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) champion, strategic consultant, speaker, and workshop facilitator for Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, universities, and startups. As a result, she founded and currently serves as CEO at belongIN.org. Dr. Figueroa has led multiple impactful philanthropic initiatives – including state-wide relief efforts and national events– she serves in multiple non-profit organizations (i.e., SHPE, HFES) and is the Advisory Board Chair for Women of Color in the Workplace®.