Who We Are.
Rosewater Advisors is a consulting firm that supports social justice organizations to do good work.
We assist leaders to walk in purpose and lead with integrity. Our freedom is interconnected. Through communication, we alleviate suffering. We support organizations to redistribute resources to meet community needs.
Why Rosewater?
Organizations select us because they are ready to do the hard work to build a better future and they know that they can’t get there alone. Maybe your organization has existed for 100 years or less than six months. Either way, you are ready to take an honest look at your practices and scale to meet your purpose.
Advisors join us because they want to contribute to the movement and maintain agency over their own lives. We believe in abundance, reject competition, and embrace mutual support. Rosewater is a community of practice that nurtures and challenges professional leaders to live their purpose.
What’s in a name?
Roses are a symbol of love and serve us as medicine for the heart.
Roses help to heal emotional wounding and build a strong, healthy love for one’s self that’s open to sharing love with others.
Water is life.
Water is symbolic of purity, fertility, motion, renewal, and transformation.
Rosewater is anti-inflammatory. It heals and reduces harm.
Rosewater Advisors was created out of love to give us the opportunity to transform ourselves and serve the organizations that heal us. Our Team.
Annie Phoenix
Founder/ Lead Advisor
Annie Phoenix is a builder. She specializes in supporting social justice organizations to identify needs, design programs, and secure funding. She has a passion for working closely with community leaders to build innovative, ambitious, sustainable programming.
Annie is currently the Executive Director of the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans where she manages a $7 million endowment to support programs focused on race, poverty, and criminal legal system reform. Annie has worked in fundraising and non-profit leadership for nearly 15 years and was previously the co-founder and development director of Operation Restoration where she worked with a dynamic team to build the organization from zero budget in 2016 to over $5 million annually in 2020. Annie received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Tulane University’s City, Culture, and Community program in 2021.