William “Brother” Rogers became the director of the Programs and Communication Division of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in 2017. From 1990 to 2016, he was the associate director of the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service in Starkville, Mississippi. He holds a master’s degree in public affairs (MPA) from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Brother was an adjunct professor from 2008 to 2014 in the Honors College at the University of Alabama, where he taught a course on women and political leadership.