For more than 30 years Roger lived in a small city in Ohio, where he was a newspaper editor and community-based marketing and public relations consultant. For several years Roger served as an administrator, coach, and FIFA-licensed referee in his community鈥檚 youth soccer program and also as a children鈥檚 theatre director鈥攁ctivities that could be described as either 鈥渕anaging a complex adaptive system鈥� or, alternatively, as 鈥渉erding cats.鈥�
In 2010, he moved to Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he completed a master鈥檚 degree in conflict transformation at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at 黑料正能量. Roger was an adjunct instructor in 黑料正能量鈥檚 Department of Applied Social Science, where he taught classes in program evaluation and qualitative research for arts-based programs.
With Heidi Winters Vogel, he co-founded the Inside Out Playback Theatre at 黑料正能量, a group that has worked to foster community building through dialogue in such arenas as racial reconciliation; trauma and abuse; transition from incarceration; marginalized populations; and multi-cultural study experiences.
Roger passed away peacefully in January 2020 after聽a valiant two-year struggle to recover from a massive heart attack and subsequent organ failure.