Rosa Otero

Salem College

Dr. Rosa Otero is the designer and curator of the Salem College SIDE Chair Library, a one-of-a-kind facility that provides access to 20th-century furniture icons. She is the director of the design program at Salem College in Winston–Salem, and a professor of design where she teaches courses in architecture, interiors, and the history of design. Before working at Salem, she was the program coordinator of interior design at Forsyth Technical Community College and was also the program coordinator of architecture at Essex County College in Newark, New Jersey. In addition, Dr. Otero worked at Hillier, an architectural firm in Princeton and Newark. She holds a Master of Science and a Ph.D., both in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania; a Masters in Architecture from Virginia Tech; and a Bachelors in Environmental Design from the University of Puerto Rico. Dr. Otero currently serves on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth Arts Council and Kaleideum board of directors and is a member of the International Furnishings and Design Association (IFDA). She is an inductee of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, Sigma Delta Pi. Dr Otero is originally from Puerto Rico and resides in Winston-Salem, NC with her husband and two children.