Meeting Info

Khalique Rogers is a graduate of Gordon Parks High School, St. Paul College, and has been asked to provide featured presentations at conferences not only in Minnesota, but also in other states. Rogers has co-authored columns in the Star Tribune and MinnPost. He’s been asked to testify a number of time at Minnesota legislative committees focused on helping reduce the number of youth and family experiencing homelessness. He personally experienced homelessness as a youngster. He served as the leader of a successful effort to convert a trash-filled vacant lot in St. Paul into a beautiful playground. Rogers has a deep belief in the importance of having young people be present and have opportunities to help shape policy.

Joe Nathan has been an inner city public school aide, teacher, and administrator. He was selected to coordinate a National Governors Association project, Time for Results: the Governors 1991 Report on Education. More than 30 state legislatures and several Congressional Committees have asked him to testify on various education issues. Student, parent, and professional groups have given him awards for his work. Nathan has helped write several major laws, including Post Secondary Enrollment Options and the nation’s first charter public school law. He served as a local PTA president in St. Paul, and a member of the Minnesota State PTA board. He has written two books named “must read” by the American School Board journal, along with a third, and edited a fourth. More than 30 newspapers including Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Atlanta Constitution, and Detroit News have published guest columns he wrote. Nathan has written proposals that generated more than $33 million from a variety of national, regional, and local foundations, government agencies, and companies.

Between 1989 and 2004 he wrote a weekly column carried by three of Minnesota’s four largest daily papers. He now writes a twice-a-month column carried regularly by about 20 suburban and rural Minnesota newspapers. The column also has appeared on local and national websites. Nathan has appeared on more than 400 television and radio programs including “The Today Show”, “Good Morning America”, "McNeil/Lehrer News Hour”, and “All Things Considered”. He earned a B.A. from Carleton, MA and PhD from the University of Minnesota. Nathan has been married for 46 years to a retired St. Paul Public School teacher. The Nathan’s three children all attended and graduated from St. Paul Public Schools.  Their five granddaughters also attend St. Paul Public Schools.