Katie Kaufman Rogers, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Criminology at Regis University in Denver, CO. Her research and teaching focus on race and gender inequalities related to work, organizations, and the carceral state.
 
Her current book project demonstrates how systemic racism and sexism intersect to shape opportunities and obstacles within the newly legal U.S. cannabis industry. Drawing on hundreds of hours of participant observation as a retail worker in dispensaries, 60 in-depth interviews with women workers and entrepreneurs, and content analyses of retail advertising, political campaigns, and news media, this book investigates women's racially diverse experiences in cannabis to uncover who "wins" and who "loses" in a profit-driven approach to drug legalization.​

Supported by the National Science Foundation, her research has been published in top peer-reviewed journals and received awards from the American Sociological Association and Sociologists for Women in Society.

She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, where she also completed a doctoral portfolio in Women's and Gender Studies, and her bachelor's degree in Sociology from Colorado College.