Owen Rogers is a Public Historian and Liaison Specialist at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. His work with the Veterans History Project builds national Library connections through community oral history project outreach, programs, and the development of inclusive training materials.
Rogers is the Vice President for the Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region organization with prior service as an At-Large Board Member from 2017-2021. He also serves on the National Council of Public History Government Historians Committee and his project experience includes CT Humanities’ Connecticut History Online, the Central Connecticut State University Veterans History Project, the Yale University-New Haven Preservation Trust’s New Haven Oral History Project, and the D.C. Public Library People’s Archive. He received a Master of Arts degree in Public History from Central Connecticut State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Connecticut. Rogers is a 2020 graduate of the Library’s Leadership Development Program, a 12-month competency based training program for employees from diverse backgrounds that culminated in a supervisory detail at the Congressional Research Service’s Knowledge Services Group.