Roxana is the Program Manager for the Innovation Team (i-team) within the Mayor’s Office of Performance and Innovation (OPI), which she joined in 2019. She is responsible for steering the i-team forward to support key Mayoral priorities. As a Multicultural Communications Specialist, prior to joining the team, Roxana devoted nearly a decade of Strategic Communications and Public Involvement work for transportation planning projects and programs including the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration’s I-495/ I-270 P3 Program, Baltimore Collegetown Network’s Shuttle Program, and the Maryland Transit Administration’s Baltimore Red Line Project. While supporting local and statewide transportation projects is very important to Roxana, she is enthusiastic to return to Baltimore to help make a contribution to the lives of Baltimoreans and support City initiatives.

Roxana earned a bachelor’s degree in Marketing Communications and Spanish from Notre Dame of Maryland University in 2009 and went on to get her master’s in contemporary communications in 2012, also from Notre Dame. She has worked in Washington, DC and Baltimore with nonprofits, government agencies, and the private sector. Some of her additional previous experience includes working for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Comcast SportsNet, Baltimore Clayworks, and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts (BOPA). Originally a DC- area native, Roxana has lived, learned, worked, and played in Baltimore. Roxana believes in the city’s potential, and appreciates that she is in a position to support the sustainable and healthy development of Baltimore.