Rodger Minatra is a trainer, college professor, author, artist, and storyteller. He was an avionics and computer test set technician and Master Instructor for the United States Air Forces for almost ten years. He was a technical writer and instructor in secure voice communications and has done training for variety of industries from food processing to semiconductor manufacturing. He taught electronics engineering technology, motor controls, and computer technology at the community college level for many years and has been teaching at the university level in business administration for more than 25 years. He has a bachelor’s degree in agriculture, a master’s degree in education/computer technology, a Master of Business Administration, and a doctoral degree in Applied Technology/Training Development. He has published journal articles, authored three children’s books, and one book dealing with the current culture and ordinary life: Living a Mostly Ordinary Life, Bucking The Liberal Culture. He also spends time working on his Youtube channel called Mostly Ordinary Things.

Rodger is a native of West Texas, grew up in New Mexico and Arizona and has lived in several states during his career. He and his wife have been married for over fifty years, and they have two married daughters and five grandchildren. They live in southern Illinois.