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Sara J. Rogers
Executive Vice President
Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
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Sara Rogers, Executive Vice-President
and Political (COPE) Director of the Rogers began her political work as a union "lost timer" on political campaigns when she worked at the UW-Hospital in Madison in the 1980's and was a member of American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 2412. Rogers then went to work full-time in the legislative arena and worked as an aide in the State Capitol in both the Senate and Assembly. In 1995, Rogers worked for The '96 Project, a national union-sponsored legislative education project. She then joined the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO staff in April 1996 as Committee on Political Education (COPE) Coordinator. Rogers was elected Executive Vice President in February 1997. Rogers is the first woman to be an officer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. As Executive Vice President and Political Director, Rogers is responsible for developing and implementing the State AFL-CIO's political agenda. This involves targeting political priorities, researching and creating direct mail membership communication and coordinating all union political activity. Born in Golden Valley, Minnesota, Rogers moved to Wisconsin in 1980 and attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, has played a key role since
1995 in helping the AFL-CIO restructure its political work and focus on issue education,
recruitment of union activists, grassroots political action and building a statewide
electoral coalition.