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Rosalyn spent her childhood in Philadelphia, residing in a Quaker-founded community in "North Philly" called the Friends Neighborhood Guild until her family moved to Germantown. She was schooled at Greene Street Friends and an experimental school called Community Camp School. When her father joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, they moved to Amherst, Massachusetts. Rosalyn began her higher education at Hampton Institute, then transferred to the University of Virginia where she ultimately earned BA and MA degrees in Speech Communication, and a PhD in Religious Studies with a focus on Bioethics. Her rich and varied professional life has included working as Head of School for Tandem Friends School; Vice President for Academic Affairs for the Institute for Shipboard Education-Semester at Sea; Director of the Center for Engineering Ethics and Society at the National Academy of Engineering; and, ultimately, as the Olsson Professor of Ethics and Chair of the Department of Engineering and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Virginia. She has travelled and studied internationally, and has lived a wonderful life in Charlottesville, Virginia for nearly 5 decades. In her leisure time, she enjoys participating in Playback Theater, doing Improv, and swimming. Since the age of 20, she has maintained a serious meditation practice.