Jennifer Rosen Valverde, Esq., MSW, is a Professor of Law on the Newark campus. She spends most of her time educating students in the Education and Health Law Clinic (EHLC), where students “learn by doing” as they advocate on behalf of children with disabilities and their families around matters such as special education and social determinants of health. In 2010, Professor Valverde co-founded and for the next decade served as the legal director of H.E.A.L. (Health, Education

Stephanie Rodríguez is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies and Director of Lives in Translation , the Translation and Interpreting program at Rutgers University-Newark. She is also a PhD candidate in Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her research focuses on translation technologies and human-computer interaction, bilingual language development, and language brokering. In 2025, s

Laura K. Porterfield, Ph.D ., is an Assistant Professor of Urban Education at Rutgers University-Newark . Her research attends to the intersection(s) of visuality, affect, and social life, particularly for, by and about Black women and girls. Her scholarship (see below) focuses on how youth learn about human difference from visual texts and everyday spaces, along with how notions of affect and visuality impact diversity, equity, and inclusion endeavors in K-16 spaces. “I thin

Christina Strasburger is an administrative and academic professional with over two decades of experience in higher education. As...