Jennifer Rosen Valverde is a clinical professor of law and the legal director of the Health, Education,
Advocacy, and Law Collaborative, a medical-legal-social work
partnership with Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences outpatient pediatrics department. She is an expert in the intersection of
poverty, health, and law, and special education law.
Professor Valverde co-teaches a course on Special Education Law and
supervises law and master's-level social work students as they represent
low-income parents of children with disabilities in special education
and early intervention cases and their families in a range of legal
issues that adversely impact child and family health and well-being.
Before joining the Rutgers clinical faculty in 2001, Professor
Valverde represented abused and neglected children as an assistant public guardian in Cook County, Illinois, and infants and toddlers with
disabilities as a staff attorney at the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law, Inc.
Professor Valverde frequently provides training across the State of
New Jersey on the early intervention and special education systems, and
cross-systems educational advocacy on behalf of children with
disabilities in foster care. She has published on these and other topics
and presented at local area and national conferences. Professor
Valverde received her B.A. in sociology from Wesleyan University in
Connecticut, and is a magna cum laude graduate of the Loyola
University-Chicago Schools of Law and Social Work.
