Ellen Rogers

Ellen Rogers has decades of experience working with the terminally ill. She worked with people with AIDS in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1984-1988. She also worked with Dr. Elisabeth Kubler Ross as a facilitator in her Life, Death, and Transition workshops for five years. She was a founding member of the Living/Dying Project in California. The director of that project, Dale Borglum, founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which was the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying.

Ellen has a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She worked tirelessly for programs designed to provide services to the most traumatized children and adults in our society.

She recently retired after working for nearly thirty years as a specialized private investigator in capital murder cases for the defense.

She is grateful to be a member of the board of Swan Songs Portland OR as it combines her love of music with her desire to help people experience peace and joy during their final days of life.