Joanne Rosen

Member, Board of Directors

Board Member Joanne Rosen is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her work focuses on the public health impact of laws that regulate abortion and reproductive health, and laws that regulate sexual intimacy and sexual orientation. She is interested in the discrimination and stigma associated with these laws. Educated in Canada, Rosen obtained her JD and MA at the University of Toronto.  She served as counsel to the Ontario Human Rights Commission in Toronto for 17 years, specializing in human rights and administrative law. She was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and an instructor in the Bar Admission Course. Joanne sits on the board of FreeState Justice, a Baltimore-based legal services organization that provides legal and policy support to members of the LGBTQ community in Maryland, and is a member of the Board of Managerial Trustees of the International Association of Women Judges, a non-governmental organization that advances human rights, equal justice and the rule of law through its network of women judges.