Edwina Clifton Rogers was born on May 27,1964 and has served in public policy positions in the US Senate, White House, private, and international sectors for over twenty years.
21 Facts About Edwina Rogers
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Edwina Rogers has worked for two presidents and four senators, and founded or directed lobbying firms for public health issues.
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Edwina Rogers is currently President of the Secular Policy Institute and CEO of the Global Healthspan Policy Institute, a 501c3 nonprofit think tank working to support research and development of new treatments to address the underlying causes of diseases of aging.
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Edwina Rogers grew up in rural Alabama when it was primarily a Southern Democratic state.
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Edwina Rogers attended the University of Alabama on scholarship and received her BS in Corporate Finance, then went on to law school at The Catholic University of America, earning her JD while working several jobs.
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Edwina Rogers practiced law in the Washington office of Balch and Bingham from 1991 until 1994, then served as General Counsel of the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the Republican take-over of the Senate in 1994.
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Edwina Rogers worked for Senator Trent Lott while he was a Majority Leader in 1999.
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Edwina Rogers was an Economic Advisor for President George W Bush at the White House during 2001 and 2002 at the National Economic Council, focusing on health and social security policy.
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Edwina Rogers handled health policy for Senator Jeff Sessions in 2003 and 2004 before serving as Vice President of the Health Policy for the ERISA Industry Committee in Washington, DC from May 2004 until January 2009.
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Edwina Rogers was a supporter of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called the Affordable Care Act or, colloquially, Obamacare.
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Edwina Rogers signed on as executive director of the Secular Coalition for America.
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Edwina Rogers' selection came on the heels of the March 2012 Reason Rally, a Secular Coalition for America sponsored event that drew tens of thousands of atheists, agnostics, humanists and other non-theistic Americans to Washington, DC.
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In 2007, when Edwina Rogers was vice president of health policy for the ERISA Industry Committee, Edwina Rogers testified in the House against a bill mandating more generous mental-health coverage, even though she personally favored the legislation.
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On June 6,2014, the Secular Coalition for America announced that Edwina Rogers has moved on from her role.
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Edwina Rogers has been a regular contributor of conservative newspaper columns, health and policy journals.
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Edwina Rogers has written a conservative column for The Georgetowner newspaper in Washington, DC and is a regular strategist on cable news television.
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Edwina Rogers appeared as a commentator twice a week on Fox News and more than once a day on MSNBC.
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Edwina Rogers made a guest appearance on The Real Housewives of DC in 2010 and in 2008 she demonstrated for another television crew her signature gift-giving style, which involved cutting up sheets of dollar bills and using them as wrapping paper.
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Edwina Rogers says she started doing this years ago, as a "cheap" and "unique" way of wrapping inexpensive gifts while still complying with ethics rules governing gift-giving in Washington.
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Edwina Rogers was a lobbyist for South Korea in the Middle East.
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Edwina Rogers served on the Board of Directors of Semco Energy, Inc a natural gas distribution company until 2007.