Stephanie Bell-Rose

Stephanie Bell-Rose is a philanthropy, governance, and corporate professional who serves as president of The Steve Fund. She is a co-founder of The Fund and has served on its board since its inception to promote the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color as they transition from adolescence into higher education, throughout their higher education experience, and as they transition to the workforce. 

From 2010 to 2020, she was a Senior Managing Director at TIAA, a Fortune 100 financial services company, where she led the firm’s Institute, which focused on economic research and organizational effectiveness in the charitable and educational sectors. Before that, Stephanie was a managing director at Goldman Sachs and founding president of The Goldman Sachs Foundation (1999-2009), which aimed to promote education and leadership development globally. During the preceding eleven years, Stephanie served as Legal Counsel and Program Officer at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where she started and ran the legal office and led global grant programs in education, economics, and public policy.

She is currently a director of the Knight Foundation, where she chairs the audit committee; the MacArthur Foundation, where she chairs the audit committee; and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, where she serves on the Gates Scholarship Committee.

Stephanie received AB, JD, and MPA degrees from Harvard University. She is a descendant of the US Colored Troops through her third great-grandfather, a farmer who escaped enslavement in North Carolina to join the Union’s forces during the Civil War. Her interests include boating, family ancestry, African-American history, and doting on her family!