Sarah Rogers was sworn in as the 11th Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy on October 10, 2025.  

Under Secretary Rogers joins the Trump administration following a career as a law-firm partner and free speech activist.  In 2024, she litigated a winning Supreme Court appeal under the First Amendment challenging the “debanking” of disfavored speakers by hostile regulators.  She also spearheaded and supported challenges to social media censorship and the weaponization of law enforcement, including in connection with the successful appeal of the wrongful conviction of Douglass Mackey.  An expert on high-stakes advocacy inside and outside courtrooms, she has represented clients including the National Rifle Association,  major tobacco manufacturers, and investors and executives in the artificial intelligence industry.  

Under Secretary Rogers received her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Dartmouth College and her Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School.  During 2003, she gained her first exposure to public diplomacy as an undergraduate intern and Nelson Rockefeller fellow in the Bureau of International Information Programs at the U.S. Department of State.