Alicia D. Rogers is President and Chief Executive Officer of Cityhappenings.com, the nation's top Internet, events, design and advertising resource. With former business partner Troy L. Davis, Rogers co-founded Cityhappenings.com, LLC CityhappeningsUSA.com, LLC. and DT Media and Design, LLC in 1999, and is owner of ADR Inc., a management, marketing and business design consulting firm she founded in 1989.

Since February 2001, Alicia has led the Business Professional Women's Network, Inc., or BPWN Inc., a professional business-women's network of Cityhappenings.com, LLC members, which she also formed. Rogers was selected by ACE Magazine as one of four "phenomenal women" of the Triangle in 2003. In January 2003, the Business and Professional Men's Alliance, Inc., or BPMA Inc., of Cityhappenings.com was launched.

ADR Inc., in May 2003 launched two new businesses which Rogers owns and manages called City Kidz, a mobile transport and day care service and a Match Making Service in which she is a relationship consultant.

In September 2004, Alicia D. Rogers decided to step back from some of her duties with Cityhappenings.com in order to spend more time developing ADR Inc. In taking ADR Inc. to a whole new level Ms. Rogers is now a Business and Professional Coach; providing ADR Inc. with new services such as: Creative Marketing, Advertising and Promotions, Perpetual Care, Personal Training (heath and fitness) along with Match Making Services for your personal relationships.

Cityhappenings.com is the "2003 Small Business of the Year Award" recipient in recognition and presented by the Raleigh-Apex Branch of the NAACP.

Under her leadership, Cityhappenings.com, LLC. became the largest events website in the USA; DT Media and Design, LLC. developed a reputation as Cityhappenings.com, LLC.'s state-of-the-art web division, and ADR Inc., evolved as the principal consulting and management solution for both Cityhappenings.com, LLC. and DT Media and Design, LLC.

With the assistance and creativity of Ms. Rogers, Cityhappenings.com and DT Media and Design are responsible for such websites as: CIAA2001.com and CIAA2002.com, the first ever basketball tournament websites for the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA), which is an athletic conference consisting of 12 historically African-American institutions of higher education.

Rogers has 18 years of management experience in sales, marketing, finance and customer service. Before launching her three-tiered business enterprise, Rogers was a senior-level executive with BellSouth Corporation. She'd also been a vice president and general manager for Apparel Warehouse Inc.

Rogers holds advanced degrees in business management and senior accounting.  She is very active in her community. Cityhappenings.com, LLC is an Advisory Board Member of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce.

Rogers is an active task-force member of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce Cultural and Business Exchange Network called Channels. Additionally, she is co-chair of the Martin Luther King Center's Outreach, Marketing and Public Relations Committee for 2002-2003, and was executive producer for the Center's first MLK Evening Gala and Black Tie Celebration held in 2003.

Rogers is also a certified personal trainer and fitness leader instructor. A former member of New Providence Baptist Church in Fuquay-Varina, NC. Faith being a part of her personality, Rogers founded SSP2000 -- Saved, Steadfast and Praying in the Year 2000 - a women's organization. She's also the year 2000 recipient of the Young Careerist Award from the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc.

Another business venture has made Rogers a first in the sports world. She is the founder of two basketball teams in the Raleigh area-the Capital City Ballers, North Carolina's first semi-professional team owned by a black woman and the City Jammers, a development and subset basketball team. April 2004, WTVD ABC 11 recognized Rogers with a Jefferson Award certificate for her hard work and commitment to improving the quality of life in our community. WRAL (CBS) saluted Ms. Rogers in February 2004, in honor of Black History Month, "Living The Legacy". The 6am live interview was on TV5's morning show with anchors Linda Loveland and Bill Leslie.

The Brothers of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. named Alicia D. Rogers as the recipient of their Bigger and Better Business Award for 2004. Urban People USA / Black Pages Today- nominated Ms. Rogers as "Woman of the Year" for 2004

Early 2005, Ms. Rogers auditioned and placed in the top 100 out of 1,200 applicants for the Apprentice TV Show with Donald Trump. However, Rogers felt she was better suited for the "new" Martha Stewart Apprentice TV Show and pursued it. However, the show was later cancelled.

A native of North Carolina, Rogers was born and raised in Chatham County. Upon graduating from college in 1988, Alicia joined Central Carolina Bank and Trust Co., and soon became the first African American female selected to lead a management team. In 1993 Rogers left CCB to move to Fuquay-Varina, along with her two cocker spaniels: Beau and Colby. In 2005, a Maltese name Powder a.k.a "Petey" was added to the family. 

Ms. Rogers hobbies are gardening, discount shopping, coupon clipping, cooking, traveling, spending time with her Mother, friends, the dogs, playing golf when time permits ... and more shopping. To say the least, she keeps herself busy and entertained.

Rogers is often called to keynote for civic groups and other organizations as time affords. There is no stopping the creative, savvy businesswoman, Alicia D. Rogers.