About

Dr. Juhanna Nicole Rogers is a community scholar, producer, director, and performer whose work connects storytelling, cultural memory, and social change. Rooted in Black women’s experiences and the African diaspora, her practice explores how stories shape identity, preserve history, and inspire communities to imagine and create new possibilities.

With a background in higher education, equity, and community engagement, Dr. Rogers brings scholarship into conversation with lived experience. She creates spaces where people can examine power, belonging, and leadership while recognizing their own knowledge as a resource for change. Her approach connects research, dialogue, and artistic expression across classrooms, cultural institutions, and community gatherings.

Her artistic work spans playwriting, poetry, theater, and media. She is the creator of Shattering, A Gatherin’ Place, and Queendom, and executive producer and host of Behind the Woman, a PBS-affiliated series exploring women’s lives and leadership journeys. Through directing, producing, and performing, she brings personal narratives and historical experiences to the stage and screen, inviting audiences to reflect on love, identity, survival, and transformation. Her practice also includes commissioned historical works, artist residencies, and collaborations that connect performance with public dialogue.

An Everson Museum of Art trustee since 2023, Dr. Rogers also serves on the board of Redhouse Arts Center and is a member of the Harriet Tubman Troupe at Auburn Public Theater and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. She holds a PhD in Higher Education and an MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in Playwriting from Goddard College. She was named to EBONY magazine’s Power 100 as one of the “Great Eight,” eight Black women who made institutional history by earning their doctoral degrees simultaneously at Indiana University.

Across her work, Dr. Rogers treats storytelling as both an artistic practice and a community resource—a way to honor where we come from, make meaning of the present, and shape what comes next.