Director of the Everett Haitian Community Center, the Rev. Myrlande-DesRosiers is a Haitian-American Ordained Pastor, a Fellow at Tufts School of Medicine Health Literacy Institute and a Family Court Conflict Resolution Mediator of the Boston Bar Association. She graduated from Suffolk University Graduate School of Government and Law. After completing her graduate internship at the United States Executive Office of Health and Human Services, she served as Deputy Director of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s Coordinated Care Systems and was appointed Governor’s Affirmative Market Program Liaison and Interim Director for Training and Outreach.
In 2011, post the catastrophic Haiti earthquake, to respond to local needs of new immigrants, she founded the Everett Haitian Community Center for Access and Civil Rights, a non- profit organization geared at helping immigrants of francophone heritage to integrate in the local society, and obtain economic stability. Rev. Guillaume-DesRosiers has been part of various boards and affiliations, including serving as Appointed City of Somerville Human Rights Commissioner; the White House Interagency Council on Women; the UN’s Conference on Women in China Suffolk and University of Virginia Delegation; the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute; and Cambridge – Somerville Hospitals Community Health Policy Executive Board. She is the recipient of several Governors’ recognitions for “Exemplary Leadership and Positive Contribution to The Success of the Commonwealth.” She has received mayoral citations from the cities of Boston, Waltham and Everett. The Rev. Myrlande-DesRosiers lives in East Boston with her family.