Laura Rogers is the Project Director, Human Health and Industrial Farming for Pew Charitable Trusts

She has nearly 20 years experience in advocacy, public relations, crisis communications, marketing, brand management and fundraising. She serves as the Project Director for Pew Charitable Trusts’ campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming.

Previously she served as vice president for the Communications Consortium Media Center (CCMC) managing projects related to women’s equality, global population, and children, family and work issues.

She also served as Director of Communications for the United Nations Foundation. While there she developed and managed communications and marketing strategies for the Foundations five priority areas: the United Nations; Children’s Health; Women & Population; Environment; and Peace, Security and Human Rights.

She also has worked for United Way organizations across the United States, including the third largest chapter and the national office. During her United Way tenure she served by appointment on the management team that coordinated the 1996 Olympic Torch Relay with the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games and The Coca-Cola Company.

She also was as an editor for The Palm Beach Post. She graduated with honors from the University of Florida where she majored in Journalism and minored in Sociology.

Blog Entries by Laura Rogers

What Can Danish Hogs Teach Us About Antibiotics?

3 Comments | Posted October 13, 2009 | 10:13 AM (EST)


Beautiful Denmark is known throughout the world for its pastries, furniture design and ham.

Yes, ham. Denmark is the largest exporter of pork in the world. The country, not much larger than Massachusetts, produces more than 26 million hogs each year--much of it in an industrialized system--selling nearly 90...

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Who's Hogging Our Antibiotics?

9 Comments | Posted June 25, 2009 | 09:41 AM (EST)


Anti-drug posters are a mainstay of mass transit systems across the country. But this month Metro riders in Washington, D.C. -- particularly commuters who use the Capitol South and Union Station stops (in close proximity to Capitol Hill) -- are seeing cautionary ads that feature some unusual species of...

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