Dr. Rogene served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Somalia, East Africa. She taught middle school children world history and how to speak English. During her two years of service in the Peace Corps, she was able to travel extensively in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zanzibar and Ethiopia. Absorbing the beauty of the people and the wildlife of East Africa was a breathtaking and life-changing experience.

In 2020, shortly before the murder of George Floyd, the Racial Justice Collaborative (RJC) was founded by Diane Wong, J.D., from Harvard Law School. Diane, with both Black and Chinese heritage, was a decades-long fellow student of Process Work with Dr. Arnold Mindell and invited Nancy to become a founding member.

With Diane as President, the Racial Justice Collaborative is a multi-racial organization that produces exemplary educational programming teaching the history of the racial divide in America, the history of anti-Black prejudice, and the creation of whiteness as a racial category.

Active in the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago in 1966, and a Peace Corps Volunteer to East Africa, Dr. Rogene has focused her doctoral studies on the history of race in America and ways to promote racial healing for the well-being of all. An avid student of cross-cultural studies, she wrote a compelling doctoral dissertation in 2008 entitled, Blinded by Whiteness: Racism as a Cultural Complex of European Americans.