Gilda Rogers
2006- Gilda Rogers graduated with honors from Monmouth University with a MA, in American History with an emphasis in African American Studies
2006 -Present Gilda is an adjunct history professor at Brookdale Community College, award-winning journalist, and author of three books including: Out of the Ashes Came Hope, the memoir of Monsignor William J. Linder, founder of New Community Corporation, in Newark and the catalyst behind the rebuilding of Newark’s Central Ward, after the ’67 Riots.
2010-Present Gilda is the Community Relations Queen for Two River Theater. Her network is broad, deep, and diversified. Gilda is a people person, which connects with her experience spent as sportswriter/reporter for The Asbury Park Press, for several years. Her love of theater and love of people is a winning combination for Two River Theater.
2017- Gilda Rogers was named the “Humanitarian of the Year,” by the Monmouth County Human Relations Commission. The American Association of University Women in 2018 named Gilda as one of the honorees of its first-ever, “Women of Achievement” award.
2019 – Wearing the historian hat, Gilda is the Executive Director of the T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center, which opened in 2019. She led the grassroots effort to save and preserve the former home of T. Thomas Fortune, a National Historic Landmark, located in Red Bank, New Jersey. Fortune was one of the greatest Black journalists and newspaper editors of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. A courageous social justice crusader, Fortune is called: “The bridge to the modern-day Civil Rights Movement.”
2006- Gilda Rogers graduated with honors from Monmouth University with a MA, in American History with an emphasis in African American Studies
2006 -Present Gilda is an adjunct history professor at Brookdale Community College, award-winning journalist, and author of three books including: Out of the Ashes Came Hope, the memoir of Monsignor William J. Linder, founder of New Community Corporation, in Newark and the catalyst behind the rebuilding of Newark’s Central Ward, after the ’67 Riots.
2010-Present Gilda is the Community Relations Queen for Two River Theater. Her network is broad, deep, and diversified. Gilda is a people person, which connects with her experience spent as sportswriter/reporter for The Asbury Park Press, for several years. Her love of theater and love of people is a winning combination for Two River Theater.
2017- Gilda Rogers was named the “Humanitarian of the Year,” by the Monmouth County Human Relations Commission. The American Association of University Women in 2018 named Gilda as one of the honorees of its first-ever, “Women of Achievement” award.
2019 – Wearing the historian hat, Gilda is the Executive Director of the T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center, which opened in 2019. She led the grassroots effort to save and preserve the former home of T. Thomas Fortune, a National Historic Landmark, located in Red Bank, New Jersey. Fortune was one of the greatest Black journalists and newspaper editors of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. A courageous social justice crusader, Fortune is called: “The bridge to the modern-day Civil Rights Movement.”