Mark Rogers, MSW, MS

Mark Rogers currently serves as the Deputy Director of Program Design & Evaluation at Team Rubicon, overseeing interdisciplinary teams in program development and evaluation across various areas. He guides decision-making processes, conducts research, and oversees technical writing and doctrine development to ensure effective disaster response and recovery efforts, impacting communities worldwide. Mark was awarded the DRLA Adjunct Faculty Member of the year for 2023. 

Before joining Team Rubicon, while at TSSW, he served on the Disaster Assistance Response Team at the American Red Cross Southeast Louisiana Regional Chapter, providing emergency assistance and case management to individuals and families impacted by home fires. He also worked as a case manager for Silence is Violence, where he provided psychosocial assessments, advocacy, and referrals to services for victim-survivors of violent crime in the same area. 

Additionally, Mark also functioned as the liaison to the Graduate and Professional School Association (GAPSA) as the representative for TSSW, conducted research on disaster resilience assessments and their application as well as on torture trauma treatments and treatment approaches, and was awarded the Thomas H. Simmons Memorial Scholarship for exhibiting leadership. 

Before attending Tulane, Mark was a middle school Physical Education Teacher in Dallas, TX, and a Campaign Volunteer Director, who oversaw all phone banking and canvassing operations for multiple Kansas state and local political campaigns in 2010 and 2012. Mark received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English and a minor in African & African American Studies.