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Desirée Rogers
Desirée Glapion Rogers (born June 16, 1959, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American business executive who is the Chief Executive Officer of Johnson Publishing Company. In November 2008 she was selected by Barack Obama's office as the White House Social Secretary for the incoming administration, the first person of African-American descent to serve in this function. On February 26, 2010, the ''Chicago Sun-Times''′ Lynn Sweet reported that she planned to step down. Rogers was replaced by Julianna Smoot, former chief of staff to the U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk. Smoot was the Obama presidential campaign chief fund-raiser.〔(From the White House Office of the Press Secretary, "White House Announces Julianna Smoot as Social Secretary", February 27, 2010. )〕 On August 10, 2010, Rogers was named CEO of Johnson Publishing Company.〔(chicagobusiness.com )〕
==Biography==
Rogers was born on June 16, 1959 in New Orleans, Louisiana.〔(Marcia Froelke Coburn, "Desirée Rogers: ‘I Have Learned Who I Am’" (profile) ), ''Chicago'' magazine, October 21, 2010.〕 She is the daughter of the late Roy Glapion and his wife Joyce. Her father was the former director of sports for the New Orleans Public Schools and a member of the New Orleans City Council. Her mother ran day-care centers. She has one brother, Roy A. Glapion, a businessman who is active in civic life in New Orleans. Rogers is a descendant of Voudou priestess Marie Laveau Glapion.〔
〕 Rogers graduated from the Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans in 1977.〔(The HistoryMakers bio ). Retrieved on March 9, 2009.〕 She earned a Bachelor's degree in political science from Wellesley College in 1981. Rogers earned a MBA from Harvard Business School in 1985.
After graduate school, Rogers married John W. Rogers, Jr. and moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she began her career. They have one daughter together. They are divorced.〔Rogers was named twice as queen of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, a Mardi Gras krewe dating back to 1916. She was first queen in 1988. Her father was instrumental in leading the krewe from a dwindling band of fewer than 100 black men in the early 1970s to a robust, financially healthy and racially integrated krewe by the 1990s. Glapion served variously as finance chairman, president and chairman of the Zulu board. In 2000 Rogers reprised the reign in honor of her father, who died in 1999. Rogers' mother, Joyce Glapion, now retired, was also active in Carnival. Rogers is an Obama family friend. Her former husband, also Obama's Inaugural Co-Chair, is a former teammate of Michelle Obama's brother Craig Robinson on the Princeton University basketball team. Rogers' brother and mother still live in New Orleans. Rogers is a survivor of breast cancer, following a diagnosis in 2003.〔
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