For more than 30 years Roger lived in a small city in Ohio, where he was a newspaper editor and community-based marketing and public relations consultant. For several years Roger served as an administrator, coach, and FIFA-licensed referee in his community\u2019s youth soccer program and also as a children\u2019s theatre director\u2014activities that could be described as either \u201cmanaging a complex adaptive system\u201d or, alternatively, as \u201cherding cats.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2010, he moved to Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he completed a master\u2019s degree in conflict transformation at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at ²ÝÝ®ÉçÇø. Roger was an adjunct instructor in EMU\u2019s Department of Applied Social Science, where he taught classes in program evaluation and qualitative research for arts-based programs.<\/p>\n
With Heidi Winters Vogel, he co-founded the Inside Out Playback Theatre at ²ÝÝ®ÉçÇø, a group that has worked to foster community building through dialogue in such arenas as racial reconciliation; trauma and abuse; transition from incarceration; marginalized populations; and multi-cultural study experiences.<\/p>\n
Roger passed away peacefully in January 2020 after\u00a0a valiant two-year struggle to recover from a massive heart attack and subsequent organ failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5013,"template":"","regions":[780],"fields-of-practice":[766,777],"degree":[760],"grad-year":[1166],"class_list":["post-5012","cjp_alumni","type-cjp_alumni","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-usa","fields-of-practice-organizational-leadership","fields-of-practice-psychosocial-trauma","degree-ma_ct","grad-year-1166"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni\/5012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cjp_alumni"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"fields-of-practice","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fields-of-practice?post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"degree","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/degree?post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"grad-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grad-year?post=5012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}