Maria Rogahn

Senior Advisor of Workforce Pathways Development, Future Focused Education

With 30+ years in education, Maria’s expertise spans classroom teaching, program development, community organizing, and research.

As Senior Advisor of Workforce Pathways Development at Future Focused Education in NM, she piloted the state's first project management youth apprenticeship and led a cross-sector collaboration to design a Youth Peer Support Specialist apprenticeship. Her work includes co-facilitating the statewide Youth Behavioral Health Council to elevate youth voices in shaping behavioral health career pathways and working with employer partners to build healthcare pre-apprenticeships. A certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor guided by her own lived experience, she is deeply committed to ending mental health stigma.