Marking 10 years of Maggie Rogers, and 10 years since the now famous video with Pharrell, which introduced her to the world, Maggie Rogers has launched her very own “The Maggie Rogers Foundation.” The philanthropic platform aims to give students a comparable opportunity while being dedicated to bringing arts and music education to students of all backgrounds. The foundation continues Rogers’ ongoing effort to support the health and well-being of women of all identities in communities across the country, because creativity and care go hand in hand. The foundation’s first initiative will be “The Maggie Rogers Endowed Scholarship Fund” at her alma mater, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, offering financial aid to students pursuing degrees in music production.

March 20, 2026, marked ten years since Pharrell was a guest in Rogers’ senior music production seminar, invited by her beloved professor Bob Power to give students feedback on their in-progress work. When Rogers played Pharrell a demo of “Alaska,” the video of his awed reaction went massively viral in the days after her graduation from Tisch’s Clive Davis Institute (you can view this video here). Rogers’ career was almost instantly launched by “Alaska,” going on to encompass three enormously acclaimed albums and extensive global touring.

During the Stephen Colbert show on April 1, 2026, Rogers performed a tribute to Colbert as his tenure on The Late Show came to a close, singing the Frank Sinatra classic “One More for My Baby,” famously performed by Bette Midler on the final episode of Johnny Carson’s run on The Tonight Show. (Watch it below)

Rogers’ activism and philanthropic work include advocacy for gun control, women’s health and abortion access, and civil rights broadly. During the last weekend of March, she spoke and performed at a Committee for the First Amendment protest at the Kennedy Center and the No Kings Really in St. Paul, Minnesota, alongside her dear friends Joan Baez and Jane Fonda.

Maryland native, multi-platinum, GRAMMY Award-nominated producer, songwriter, and performer Maggie Rogers released her breakthrough EP “Now That The Light is Fading” in 2017. Hailed as an artist to watch, Rogers shared her critically acclaimed debut album Heard it in a Past Life in 2019 and immediately found tremendous success, debuting No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and earning raves from NPR, The New York Times, Vogue, and many others. The debut album also landed Rogers a Best New Artist nomination at the 62nd Grammy Awards. The same album, containing Platinum hits “Light On” and “Alaska,” has since amassed over 1 billion streams globally and is already certified Gold in the United States. 2022 saw Rogers releasing her sophomore album, Surrender, to widespread acclaim and embarking on two sold-out headline tours across Europe and North America. Rogers’ 2024 album Don’t Forget Me saw similar universal praise and a sold-out global tour, including her first arena run in North America with two nights at Madison Square Garden in New York and Kia Forum in LA.