Meet LaTonya

LaTonya’s strength is her ability to develop ideas that contribute to efficiency while managing teams and individual and group projects. She believes in contributing to the growth, development, and relationships she has developed as an educator and community servant. As a former elected official, she found these skills to be important to accomplishing her goals of providing support to the citizens of Ward D in the City of East Point. LaTonya wants her community to reflect the citizens that reside in it. She is firmly committed to being an advocate to speak as a voice for the citizens in her community. She has consciously decided to work for her community and is committed to excellence.

As a former elected official, LaTonya was able to work with the citizens of East Point to discuss challenges within the city and the Ward she represented, actively engaged in council meetings, voted on matters put before the council, directed the enforcement of city ordinances, appointed administrative personnel, conducted city business, managed the city’s financial operations, and intergovernmental affairs. She also developed the first internship program in collaboration with Atlanta Metropolitan State College. The program provided students with “real world, hands on” work experience combined with college credits within the college’s Business and Social Science departments. As a proponent of recreational activity, LaTonya played a significant role in working with the Georgia Soccer Park Foundation to develop the first “public private partnership” in East Point collaborating with the parks and recreation department. She has also worked on many council-initiated committees. LaTonya is very active in her community serving on the East Point Cultural Enrichment Commission, the East Point Preservation Alliance, the East Point Historical Society, East Point Census Board, the Tri-Cities High School Alumni Association, South Fulton Parents for Education, Juneteenth Volunteer Coordinator, Delta Research Education Foundation (DREF) and served on additional advisory committees to South Fulton’s Elected Officials.

LaTonya resides with her husband Robert P. Rogers Jr. in the Heritage Park subdivision in East Point, Georgia. They both attend Friendship Community Church where they volunteer their time on various events that the church hosts. She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, and former Secretary of the Morris Brown College National Alumni Association. CJS Chorale Choir (Friendship Community Church), and a National Council of Negro Women (chartering member). She and Robert joined a group of inaugural owners of Market 166, a co-op that is building a people-first grocery store that will provide fresh produce and nourishing food in the City of East Point. She enjoys spending time with her family, travelling, reading, thrift store shopping, and listening to music in her spare time.