Mrs. Rogers was born and grew up in Florida, playing in many undeveloped woods, orange groves, and various bodies of water.  A devout tomboy, she enjoys canoe rides on a slow moving rivers when she returns to drink in “Old Florida.”  An amateur fiber artist from a very young age, Mrs. Rogers sewed her way to jobs in alterations, making upholstery for fancy yachts, and working in the sewing department for a major cycling company.  In college she studied Anthropology, which combined well with her love of travel  and adventure through the United States, Canada, Mexico and Western Europe.  She visited her first Waldorf School in Jarna, Sweden and after college worked as an assistant registrar at a museum in St Augustine, Florida.  When her children were young, Mrs. Rogers moved to Eugene, Oregon where she enrolled in the Teacher Training Program.   She eventually took a class for four years in Corvallis, Oregon and then taught blocks in Alaska.  After one year teaching Grade 5 at the Whidbey Island Waldorf School, Mrs. Rogers joined her current class in 2008.