Ms. Paulette Rogers

Paulette “Letty” Rogers is a student at Metro State University in St. Paul, Minnesota where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management with a minor in Community Organization and Development, president of the Black Student Union, and recently awarded the President’s Outstanding Student Award. She will graduate in May of 2024 and plans to continue her education at a historically Black college or university. 

Prior to navigating a college education as a first-generation student, Letty worked as a nurse for 15 years working in family care, pediatrics, obstetrics, infection disease and travel tropical medicine. Her passion has always been helping other people and as a teenager she began to volunteer at nursing homes and community centers such as the YMCA to help fill gaps for the underserved and unprivileged.

Currently she is working to build a nonprofit from a grassroots level, hosting workshops in marginalized communities to humanize and mobilize people to become their best selves. She presents workshops on intentions, healing, setting plans and goals while adapting a consistent way to achieve goals with self-gratification, resilience and appreciation for knowledge. Giving people options and resources to get out of their negative circumstances. Letty also volunteers at Hospitality House where she tutors BIPOC children in reading, writing and math.

Letty is passionate about helping people who look like her and helping them achieve goals.