Executive Director
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack
ASU Vice President for Cultural Affairs
Executive Director of ASU Gammage
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack
An arts leader and visionary, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack serves as Vice President for Cultural Affairs at Arizona State University and Executive Director of ASU Gammage. She established the organizational mission of Connecting Communities™, enabling ASU Gammage to make a difference in the community through the shared experience of the arts.
As Arizona’s only Tony Awards® voter and Vice Chair of the Road for The Broadway League Board of Governors, Jennings-Roggensack has made a profound impact both locally and nationally through arts advocacy. She is a member of the Black Theatre United Summit and the 7G Committee, a founding and current member of the Creative Capital Board, and Senior Advisor to Women of Color in the Arts. She is a former president of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals and served on the National Council on the Arts at the request of President Clinton. Additionally, she is a Life Director of the Fiesta Bowl.
Jennings-Roggensack’s accolades span decades of leadership and dedication. In 2024, she received the Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre for her invaluable work behind the scenes in the theatre community. She was named one of Arizona’s 48 Most Intriguing Women and City of Tempe Arts and Culture Community Impactor in 2021. In 2020, she was recognized as a National Coalition of 100 Black Women Education Legend, and in 2019, she was named Valley Leadership Woman of the Year and received the ASU West Pioneer Award. Her other honors include the National Society of Arts and Letters Medallion of Merit, Valle del Sol’s Mom of the Year, the 2017 Halsey and Alice North Board Alumni Award, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters’ Fan Taylor Award, Black Philanthropy Initiative Honor, The Broadway League’s Outstanding Presenter, and the Arizona Governor’s Arts Award. In 2012, The Arizona Republic recognized her as one of the individuals who had the greatest impact on Arizona in its first 100 years.
Jennings-Roggensack oversees the historic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed ASU Gammage and ASU Kerr, as well as Mountain America Stadium and Desert Financial Arena for non-athletic activities. She leads the activation and transformation of Mountain America Stadium into a year-round cultural hub as part of the ASU 365 Community Union. In 2020, ASU President Michael Crow appointed her to co-lead the Advisory Council on African American Affairs.
A former dancer and choreographer, Colleen is married to Dr. Kurt Roggensack, a volcanologist at ASU. They are proud parents to Kelsey, an All-American swimmer, Williams College graduate, two-time Fulbright Scholar, and Harvard University master’s degree holder, who is now pursuing a PhD at Cornell University.
