Thomas Rogers

Board Director

Thomas Rogers is a consultant and citizen advocate focused on sustainable
development, humanitarian assistance and disaster response and recovery. Retired
in 2018, he worked on humanitarian assistance missions with the US Agency for
International Development's Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) from
2003. With OFDA, he served in Ethiopia, Thailand, Sudan, South Sudan, Pakistan,
Zimbabwe, Kenya, Liberia, Iraq, Nigeria, Jordan, South Africa and the US. He also
established the program of Habitat for Humanity International in Afghanistan and
served as interim country director for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in
Indonesia. He has also worked in the NGO and IO sectors in Cambodia, the
Philippines, and Sudan.

As associate director of The Center for Respect of Life and Environment (CRLE) in
Washington, DC from 1992 to 2000, Mr. Rogers also served as associate director of
The Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF), national
coordinator of the Earth Charter USA Campaign and national co-coordinator of the
US Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet). He also served as
private sector advisor on the official US delegations to the UN Commission on
Sustainable Development. Mr. Rogers was actively involved in NGO activities at
many major UN-sponsored global conferences including the Summit on Social
Development, the 2nd UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), the
Commission on Sustainable Development, and Rio+5. Mr. Rogers has co-authored
numerous publications on refugee social adjustment and mental health, sustainable
livelihoods and sustainable development.

Mr. Rogers received his received his BA in Psychology and Philosophy from the
University of Minnesota in 1972 and his MA in Psychology from the Graduate
School of Human Behavior, US International University (Now, Alliant International
University) in San Diego, California in 1976.

Mr. Rogers lives with his wife, Mariza, in the beautiful high desert of Bend, Oregon.
He enjoys Tai Chi, music making, gardening, hiking and cooking. He is also a member
of the steering committee of The Vocal Seniority (www.thevocalseniority.org), a
group of politically progressive elders in Bend.