Entertainment career Rowe appeared in the TV movies
Vanished,
Lucky 7 and
Though None Go with Me and the NBC mini-series
The 70s, as well as appearing on
Perception as FBI Agent Bobby Dalton, and as Agent Jack Burgess on
1-800-MISSING. In 1998, he portrayed a recurring character named Walt in the
sitcom NewsRadio. The character is the nephew of WNYX‘s eccentric billionaire owner Jimmy James. In 2007, he played Shaun, the romantic interest of the central character (
Trevor Wright) of
Shelter. He took part in
Tony Zierra's 2011 documentary
My Big Break, which follows the early careers of Rowe,
Wes Bentley,
Chad Lindberg and
Greg Fawcett.
Public policy work Rowe advocated for
same-sex marriage rights during the
California Proposition 8 campaign in 2008. In the early 2010s, Rowe worked in educational policy for the
United Way of Greater Los Angeles, organizing HomeWalk, an event that raised money to fight homelessness. Rowe graduated with a master's degree in public policy (MPP) from the
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs in 2013. He was awarded the Ann C. Rosenfield Fellowship in Education Policy by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles. Until 2017, Rowe was the managing director of BOTEC Analysis, a public policy research and consulting firm based in Los Angeles, and a contributor to the Crime and Justice Program at
New York University's Marron Institute of Urban Management. Rowe is president of Rowe Policy Media, specialising in cannabis and criminal justice policy. His book Cannabis Policy in the Age of Legalization was published in 2024. == Personal life ==