Jodie Genine Roure graduated from Douglass College, Rutgers University with a Bachelor’s of Arts in English and a minor in Spanish. She is a former United States Supreme Court intern. She obtained her Juris Doctor from Western New England College School of Law in Massachusetts. She also studied International Human Rights Law Protection in San Jose, Costa Rica at the University of Costa Rica Law School. In Costa Rica, she lived among the Bri Bri Indigenous tribe. She obtained her PhD at the University at Buffalo-SUNY in American Studies with a major in Intercultural Studies and International Human Rights and is an Arturo A. Schomburg Fellow.
She has conducted extensive research in the area of human rights including violence against women in Brasil, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the United States. Her doctoral dissertation is titled International Human Rights Law as a Resource in Combating Domestic Violence: Transcending Legal, Social and Cultural Obstacles in Brasil and the United States. She is also an expert witness on domestic violence cases and works with global law firms in this capacity.
Jodie Roure is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. She is currently the John Jay Director of the Ronald H. Brown Law School Prep Program.
Prior to John Jay she worked for the Director of the Administrative Office of the NJ State Judiciary, the University at Buffalo-SUNY, and the Center for Latino Arts and Culture at Rutgers University.