She graduated from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg and was ordained at St. Andrews United Church of Cairo in 1994 where she and her husband, Mark, were living and working on behalf of the ELCA. Rosanne is deeply interested in cultures other than her own and how those cultures and traditions shape the life and faith of people, particularly women, and the stories they tell about their lives. Mark teaches church history and interfaith relations at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. They have three grown children and a new grandson.