Roscean Spencer

Small Business Program Director for New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

Roscean is an industry leader in conventions and tradeshows. The Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority (“Authority”), the Convention Center’s governing board, created the position to promote the importance of diversity, inclusion, and small business development at the Convention Center. In this role, Mrs. Spencer is tasked with developing and managing the Small and Emerging Business Opportunity Program, and serves as liaison between the Authority, internal stakeholders, and the community.

Mrs. Spencer comes to the Convention Center from the City of New Orleans, Office of Supplier Diversity (OSD) where she served as the Department Lead. In this capacity she oversaw certification, compliance an outreach for local small and disadvantaged businesses. Under her leadership, OSD continued to follow the reformed DBE program and DBE ordinance that strengthened DBE Rules, Regulations and Compliance for city contracts. Prior to that tenure she served in OSD as an Interim, Certification Officer, Compliance Officer (managing a portfolio of $150 million dollars of Public and Private Sector funds) and the Certification Coordinator overseeing the SLDBE certification department.

Mrs. Spencer is a skilled and proven leader with sound knowledge of developing and administering small business and compliance programs, including DBE Programs, Supplier Diversity Programs and Contract/Compliance administration. She has broad knowledge about trends, movements, and policy development to stimulate appropriate programming direction in the areas of equity and inclusion.

Mrs. Spencer earned her B.A. in Public Administration from Southern University at New Orleans. She also earned her Contract Compliance Administrator Certification from American Contract Compliance Association and Morgan State University for Continuing and Professional Studies. In addition to her memberships in several professional and community organizations, Mrs. Spencer serves as a committee member on the City of New Orleans, SLDBE Appeals Committee.

 Aside from her professional life, Mrs. Spencer is the wife of 24 yrs. to Mr. Duane Spencer and together they have three sons.