| Summary: | Business chief executive Desiree Glapion Rogers was born June 16, 1959 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She earned her B.A. degree in political science from Wellesley College in 1981, her M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School in 1985. After graduate school, she married John W. Rogers, Jr. She moved to Chicago to work for AT&T. She became an executive for entrepreneur Larry Levy. In 1990, Rogers was placed in charge of the Illinois State Lottery. In 1997, she became Vice President of Corporate Communications, Peoples Energy. Now divorced, she was promoted to Chief Marketing Officer in 2000 and in 2004, elected President of the company's two utility subsidies, Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas. Rogers was a Senior Vice President of the Integrys Energy Group before becoming the first African American Social Secretary for the Obama White House. In 2010, Rogers was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Johnson Publishing Company, overseeing publication of Ebony and Jet magazines.
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