Colleen Jennings-Roggensack
has been presenting the performing arts for the past 26 years. She
is currently Executive Director of Arizona State University Public
Events and Assistant Vice President for Cultural Affairs with artistic,
fiscal and administrative responsibility for three cultural facilities
(ASU’s Gammage Auditorium, ASU’s Kerr Cultural Center
and ASU’s Sundome), with additional responsibility for Sun
Devil Stadium and Wells Fargo Arena for non-athletic activities such
as concerts, commencement and convocation exercises.
Jennings-Roggensack was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed
by the US Senate to serve on the National Council on the Arts for
three years and now serves as an Ambassador for the Arts for the
National Council on the Arts. She has held positions at Dartmouth
College, Colorado State University and the Western States Arts Federation.
Jennings-Roggensack has also acted as an advisor to the National
Dance Project, Africa Exchange Advisory Council, The Japan Foundation
and its performing arts program, and the US/Netherlands Project,
a contemporary theatre partnership.
Formerly a dancer and choreographer, she is married to Dr. Kurt Roggensack,
volcanologist at Arizona State University, and has a 14-year old
daughter, Kelsey.
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