{"id":11408,"date":"2013-03-22T15:42:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T15:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=11408"},"modified":"2013-03-22T15:42:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T15:42:34","slug":"alum-named-director-of-white-house-faith-based-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2013\/03\/alum-named-director-of-white-house-faith-based-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum named director of White House faith-based office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"melissa-rogers-mar13\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/melissa-rogers-mar13.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Rogers\" width=\"180\" \/>When President Barack Obama went looking for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abpnews.com\/ministry\/people\/item\/8296-baptist-named-to-white-house-post#.UUNFeKVzMRk\" target=\"_blank\">a new director for the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships<\/a>, it seems only natural that he would find a Baylor Bear.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Rogers, BA &#8217;88, was named earlier this month to replace one of President Obama&#8217;s longest-serving aides as the top White House official on religious issues. Rogers joins the Executive Branch from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/divinity.wfu.edu\/religion-and-public-affairs\/director-biography\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wake Forest University&#8217;s School of Divinity<\/a>, where she has led the Center for Religion and Public Affairs since 2004; prior to that, she served as executive director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life<\/a>\u00a0and as general counsel for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjconline.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5495&amp;Itemid=112\" target=\"_blank\">Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[MEDIA COVERAGE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/03\/13\/melissa-rogers-white-house-faith-based_n_2868413.html?utm_hp_ref=religion\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a> || <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/ctliveblog\/archives\/2013\/03\/white-house-picks-baptist-church-state-expert-to-head-faith-based-office-melissa-rogers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Christianity Today<\/a> || <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/13\/obama-appoints-church-state-law-expert-to-head-faith-based-office\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a> || <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abpnews.com\/ministry\/people\/item\/8296-baptist-named-to-white-house-post#.UUNFeKVzMRk\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Baptist Press<\/a> || \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/melissa-rogers-new-head-of-white-house-faith-based-office\/2013\/03\/13\/7b70535e-8c24-11e2-af15-99809eaba6cb_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a> || <a href=\"http:\/\/www.relevantmagazine.com\/slices\/meet-white-houses-new-faith-based-office-director\" target=\"_blank\">Relevant Magazine<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An expert on church-state relations and lifelong Baptist, Rogers earned Phi Beta Kappa honors and a bachelor&#8217;s degree in history from Baylor before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Melissa!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When President Barack Obama went looking for a new director for the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, it seems only natural that he would find a Baylor Bear. Melissa Rogers, BA &#8217;88, was named earlier this month to replace one of President Obama&#8217;s longest-serving aides as the top White House official on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-faith","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}