She is the Harry West Professor of City and Regional Planning, the director of the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, and the deputy director of the Center for Transportation System Productivity and Management at Georgia Institute of Technology.

[2] In 1999, she became the first executive director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority and served in this role for four years.

[2][3][4] She then became the director of the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development at the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech in 2003.

[1] In July 2009, she was an advisor to the Obama administration on the creation of the White House Office of Urban Affairs.

[5] Ross is the editor of Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness (2009)[6][7] and co-editor of The Inner City: Urban Poverty and Economic Development in the Next Century (1997).