David Rogers
In his 37 years as an educator, David has served as an education volunteer and program coordinator in the Peace Corps in Paraguay, as a multilingual special education teacher in the South Bronx, and as a dual-language classroom teacher, multilingual program coordinator, and school principal in the South Valley of Albuquerque. In 1996 David and his colleagues helped to organize the first La Cosecha Dual Language Conference, (La Cosecha means “the harvest” in Spanish), which is hosted by Dual Language Education New Mexico, where David served as its Executive Director from 1999 to 2022. David's advocacy for culturally and linguistically diverse communities has been recognized by the Association for Two-Way Dual-Language Education, the New Mexico Coalition for Educational Leadership, the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce, and, wait for it—the King of Spain!