Jodie G. Roure, JD, PhD, has been at John Jay College since 2000 and is an Associate Professor in the Latin American and Latinx Studies Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, where she has taught since 2002. She was a Special End Mass Incarceration Campaign Fellow with the American Civil Liberties Union. After Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Dr. Roure led Doctors for Maria Relief to aid victims of natural disasters in Puerto Rico and elsewhere in the Caribbean. The humanitarian aid medical relief effort post hurricane Maria provided medical, food, and other donation relief efforts throughout Puerto Rico in October 2017 with over 25 doctors, nurses, and other volunteers from across the United States. Dr. Roure also served as a Scholar in Residence at the InterAmerican University School of Law, Puerto Rico, from 2012-2013. She taught and worked with the Puerto Rico Judicial System on a study of the processing of domestic violence cases.  She teaches domestic violence/gender rights, criminal justice, international human rights, international criminal justice, race, class, and ethnicity in the United States, and Latinx Studies. 

Dr. Roure is also the John Jay College Founder, Project Investigator, and Director of the CUNY BMI Rising Scholars of Justice Program housed in the LLS Department (formerly the Ronald H. Brown Law School Prep Program at JJC) & Director of the University of Houston Law Center Pre-Law Pipeline Program at John Jay College.  For over 20 years, she has assisted in securing the admissions and matriculation of hundreds of low-income and underrepresented students into law school and graduate school with millions in combined scholarship awards.  Committed to diversifying the legal profession, Dr. Roure works with numerous law schools across the country to create diversity pipeline programs. She has worked with the University at Buffalo's Discover Law Program, the St. John's University School of Law Prelaw Pipeline Program, Western New England University School of Law, and many more to develop undergraduate prelaw pipeline programs. She partakes in the summer law school offerings and provides year-long individualized student support to participating students.  The CUNY BMI Rising Scholars of Justice Program, a Diversity Prelaw Pipeline Program, offers a variety of governmental &  non-governmental legal internships exposing students to all areas of the law year-round by providing consistent holistic support and targeted assistance with the law school application process.  In 2020, 13 students in the program were accepted to over 45 law schools with a combined scholarship of $4.5 million. For updates, see https://risingscholarsofjustice.weebly.com/

Dr. Roure extensively researches human rights, including violence against women.  She has focused her research on violence against women and girls in Brasil, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the United States, the case studies for the book she is currently writing.  Dr. Roure is an expert witness and global government consultant in this area. Her related work appears on CNN, CNN Español, Telemundo, Brut, PBS, Eyewitness News NYC, and many other national and international TV/media and newspaper articles.  She also conducts extensive research on pipeline education, race, class, ethnicity, and gender in the United States with a global comparative perspective as a means of eradicating poverty globally.  She frequently presents at the United Nations.  Her UN presentation highlights include the UN Commission on the Status Against Women 57, 59, and 61, 62 & 63, as well as at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, moderating at the UN General Assembly 68 on State Responsibility for Eliminating Violence Against, and she has provided educational training at the UN International Criminal Court on the Approaches to Gender Based Prosecution and Prison Project Studies.

Dr. Roure's publication highlights include Roure, J., The Reemergence Of Barriers During Crises & Natural Disasters: Gender-Based Violence Spikes Among Women & LGBTQ+ Persons During Confinement. (Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations. Volume XXI, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2020) (April 2020).; J. G. Immigrant Women, Domestic Violence, and Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico: Compounding the Violence for the Most Vulnerable, Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Vol. 20, Issue 3 (Spring 2019); Roure, J. G. Gender Justice in Puerto Rico: Domestic Violence, Legal Reform and International Human Rights. Human Rights Quarterly (The John Hopkins University Press) (August 2011); Roure, J. G. Domestic Violence in Brazil: Examining Obstacles and Approaches to Promote Legislative Reform. Columbia Human Rights Law Review (Fall 2009).; Roure, J. Achieving Education Equity and Access for Underrepresented Students in the Legal Profession. Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review (Fall 2009).; Roure, J. The NCLB, Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Diversity: Creating a High School to Law/Graduate School Pipeline for Underrepresented Students. In M. Dyson. Ed. Our Promise: Achieving Educational Equity for America's Children. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press.; Roure, J.G. Book Review of C. R. Soltero. Latinos and American Law: Landmark Supreme Court Cases. Texas: University of Texas Press 2006. Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies XX (1): 249-52.;  Roure, J.G. Domestic Violence in Latin America: Implementing International Human Rights Law and Principles. (Work-In-Progress).

Dr. Jodie G. Roure graduated from Douglass College, Rutgers University, with a Bachelor 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 University School of Law in Massachusetts, where she serves on the Dean's Advisory Council. 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 spent time among the Bri Bri Indigenous tribe.  She obtained her Ph.D. at the University at Buffalo-SUNY in Transnational Studies, majoring in Intercultural Studies and International Human Rights, where she serves on the Dean's Advisory Council.  Dr. Roure is an Arturo A. Schomburg Fellow.  Her doctoral dissertation is entitled International Human Rights Law as a Resource in Combating Domestic Violence: Transcending Legal, Social and Cultural Obstacles in Brasil and the United States. 

Dr. Roure has received many distinguishing awards. In 2022, Dr. Roure received four national recognitions for her diversity pipeline work and commitment to social justice and global human rights, including the Franklin H. William Judicial Commission Pipeline to Equity in Legal Education and the Profession Award, the University of Notre Dame School of Law Graciela Olivarez Award for Outstanding Commitment to Service to the Hispanic Legal Community, the Latino Judges Association's Honorable Frank Torres Award for her Commitment to Diversity, and the Western New England University School of Law Distinguished Alumni Award for significant contributions not only to the legal profession but to society as a whole.

Prior to John Jay College, she worked for the Administrative Office of the New Jersey State Judiciary, the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where she now resides as a Board Member on the Dean's Advisory Council, and at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Campus.