ping to 108. Any goods on her yet?
She is single now, according to Vogue but she was married to John W. Rogers, the founder and CEO of Ariel Investments at one time.
All of this is out there on the web, I know she is a great networker and has been influential in many ways. Below from Whorunsgov.com.
Rogers comes to the White House after a career in business. Most recently, she was charged with heading up a new social networking site being launched by Allstate Financial, and before that, she spent more than a decade working for Peoples Energy Corp., first as the chief marketing officer for the parent company and later as the president of Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas in Chicago.
Rogers, whose ex-husband is very close to Barack Obama and played basketball with Michelle Obama’s brother Craig Robinson, has known the Obamas for years and been a prodigious donor to Barack Obama’s political campaigns since 1999. She will be the first black social secretary in the White House, but the title of “first African-American” is not something new for Rogers, who was also the first black president of Peoples Gas. “I would like to see the day when we can say we are not the first Black because there are so many of us,” she said when she left Peoples Gas.Wendell, Hutson, “Peoples Gas first Black president resigns,” Chicago Defender (Illinois), July 2, 2008 – July 8, 2008(2)Wendell, Hutson, “Peoples Gas first Black president resigns,” Chicago Defender (Illinois), July 2, 2008 – July 8, 2008
Senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett said Rogers will try to open up the White House “so it’s the people’s house again. This campaign engaged a lot of people in ways they had not engaged before. This is about continuing to capture that excitement.”Romano, Lois, “Friend of the Obamas to be social secretary,” The Washington Post, Nov. 24, 2008(1)Romano, Lois, “Friend of the Obamas to be social secretary,” The Washington Post, Nov. 24, 2008