Dr. Rachelle Rogers- Ard

Dr. Rachelle Rogers- Ard Keynote Speaker | Author | Principal Lead | Musician

Wholeness is the destination. Move in it. ✨📸| @.juice.___
06/18/2026

Wholeness is the destination. Move in it. ✨

📸| @.juice.___

06/16/2026

Welcome to Read with Dr. Rachelle, a new series where I share what I'm reading, why it matters, and why I believe that access to books is an act of liberation.

I always read in threes:
✦ One for growth
✦ One for the mystery lovers in me
✦ One that simply calls to me

This week's reads:
📖 A Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
A novel that will make you sit with it long after you're done

📖 The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
Radical self-love is not a luxury, it is a practice

📖 Stolen in Death (In Death Series) by J.D. Robb
Sometimes your brain needs a good murder mystery, and there is zero shame in that

The link to the full video- https://youtu.be/HeATWquZyPU.
Come read with me.

They're burning books. I'm buying more. 📚I was taught to read by my sightless mother at an age when most children were j...
06/15/2026

They're burning books. I'm buying more. 📚

I was taught to read by my sightless mother at an age when most children were just learning their ABCs. That gift, while born out of necessity, became one of the greatest joys of my life. And right now, in a season where the people in power are trying to decide what we're allowed to read, who gets to vote, and whose story deserves to be told... I refuse to shrink.

So I'm leaning into joy. I'm leaning into books.

Welcome to Read with Dr. Rachelle, a new series where I share what I'm reading, why it matters, and why I believe that access to books is an act of liberation.

I always read in threes:
✦ One for growth
✦ One for the mystery lovers in me
✦ One that simply calls to me

This week's reads:
📖 A Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
A novel that will make you sit with it long after you're done

📖 The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
Radical self-love is not a luxury, it is a practice

📖 Stolen in Death (In Death Series) by J.D. Robb
Sometimes your brain needs a good murder mystery, and there is zero shame in that

The link to the full video- https://youtu.be/HeATWquZyPU.
Come read with me.

Authenticity isn't just a personal practice; it's a gift you give to everyone around you. Lead as you are. 🖤📸| .theartis...
06/13/2026

Authenticity isn't just a personal practice; it's a gift you give to everyone around you.

Lead as you are. 🖤

📸| .theartist

06/11/2026

We have been here before. And we know what got us through. 📚🖤

There is a reason that enslaved people were forbidden from learning to read. There is a reason that laws were written, enforced with violence, to keep Black people away from books and away from knowledge.
Because the people in power have always known what we know:

A literate people cannot be easily controlled.

And here we are again. Books being banned. Curricula being gutted. History being erased. A small group of extraordinarily privileged and entitled people making decisions designed to keep the rest of us uninformed, underprepared, and dependent on their version of the truth. This is a strategy that is all too familiar.

Which is exactly why what we do next matters more than ever. Read to your children. Buy books for young people in your community. Support your local library. Seek out the stories they are trying to hide. Build a home where knowledge is treated like the sacred, powerful thing that it is.

Because at every point in history when systems have tried to shrink us, our liberation has come through learning.
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What book changed your life? Drop it below, let's build a reading list together. 👇🏾
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Say it louder for the people in the back. When access to knowledge is being threatened, picking up a book becomes one of...
06/10/2026

Say it louder for the people in the back.

When access to knowledge is being threatened, picking up a book becomes one of the most powerful things you can do.

Reading is resistance. It is how we stay informed, grounded, and free in our thinking, no matter what is happening around us.

What are you reading right now? Drop it in the comments. 👇🏾

📸 | .theartist

I have a keynote coming up, and I want you there with me.I will be delivering a keynote for the King County Department o...
06/09/2026

I have a keynote coming up, and I want you there with me.

I will be delivering a keynote for the King County Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) ERSJ Fair on June 10th from 12–1PM PT, and you can tune in virtually from wherever you are.

Drop an "I'm in!" in the comments below, and I will send you the link directly so you don't miss it. 👇

California! Did you cast your vote today? 🗳️✊🏾I need to know. Drop your answer in the comments.Here's what I want you to...
06/02/2026

California! Did you cast your vote today? 🗳️✊🏾

I need to know. Drop your answer in the comments.

Here's what I want you to sit with for a moment: there was a time in this country when the simple act of walking into a polling place could cost a Black person their job, their home, or their life.

People marched.
People were hosed down in the streets.
People have their lives taken.

It is an honor and an act of respect to every ancestor who was told their voice did not matter and refused to believe it.

Today, your voice matters.

So I'll ask again, did you vote today? 🗾 Yes or not yet? Let me know below, and if you haven't, there is still time.

Go.
Right now.
We'll be here when you get back. 👇🏾

06/01/2026

The classroom looks nothing like it did 20 years ago. Teachers are navigating more challenges, more demands, and more responsibilities than any generation of educators before them. And they are still showing up. Let's meet them halfway. 🙏🏾

It does not have to be complicated. It just requires intention.

Here are a few places to start:
📖 Buy a young person in your life a book, any book, their choice
⏱️ Sit down and read with them for just 15 minutes a day
🏫 Look into a local literacy program and get them enrolled
🗣️ Talk about what you are reading together
Small, consistent actions create readers. And readers create futures.
It is not too late to start.

DM me directly if you need resources or tips on where to begin. The door is open. 🚪

What is one small thing you did, or someone did for you, that made reading feel accessible? Share below 👇🏾

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Read that again. 🖤We love our teachers, and the best thing we can do to support them is show up as partners, not bystan...
05/29/2026

Read that again. 🖤

We love our teachers, and the best thing we can do to support them is show up as partners, not bystanders.

Literacy is not solely the school's responsibility. It begins at home, at the kitchen table, on the couch before bed, in the car on the way to practice. It begins with us.
Our children are watching what we do far more than they are listening to what we say. When they see us read, when we sit beside them and read together, we are telling them, without a single word, that this matters.

The classroom will do its part. Let's make sure we are doing ours.

DM me you need resources on how to get started at home.
No judgment, just support. 💛

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