Pier C. Rogers, PhD, has been the Director of the Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management and Professor of Nonprofit Management at North Park University since 2007. Under her leadership, the Center has expanded programs, doubled sponsorships, broadened the network of professional faculty, and substantially increased the Center’s visibility and impact on the nonprofit professionals and organizations served.  Over the course of her career, Rogers has held leadership and management positions in the New York City Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers; at Associated Black Charities; at New York University; at United Way of Massachusetts Bay; and at the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Welfare. She also held academic positions at the New School University in New York City, and at Yale’s Divinity School and Program on Non-Profit Organizations. Rogers will soon assume the role of President-Elect for ARNOVA, the international nonprofit research association.  She recently served on the board of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association and is a member of the “Willie’s Warriors Advisory Board” at the Chicago Foundation for Women.   Rogers previously served on the boards of the Illinois Charitable Trust Stabilization Fund, Chicago Women in Philanthropy, the Chicago Wellesley Club, the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council, and the CBE Board of Advisors at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University.