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Roure is renowned for her exceptional career in academia, social justice and advocacy. She is an associate professor and founding director of the City University of New York Black Male Initiative Rising Scholars of Justice Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CEO of HMARIA, Inc., a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Roure teaches and researches human rights, domestic violence, gender rights, criminal justice, race, class and ethnicity to create experiential learning opportunities. 

As a first-generation student of Puerto Rican decent, Roure earned a bachelor’s degree from Douglass College, Rutgers University and a doctorate from Western New England University School of Law, studying international human rights law in Costa Rica. She earned a doctorate in American Studies from UB as an Arturo A. Schomburg Fellow. Her dissertation contributed to Brazil’s domestic violence legislation, the Maria da Penha Law. 

Roure organizes global medical brigades to support local doctors in the Caribbean to aid victims of natural disasters and support underrepresented populations. She developed a Diversity in Medicine Pipeline Program for aspiring doctors, modeled after her successful diversity pipeline for the legal profession. She has raised millions of dollars for diversity initiatives. 

She has presented at the United Nations on gender-based violence and her research on the pandemic and gender-based violence is part of the U.N. World Health Organization database. A former U.S. Supreme Court intern hired by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she is a published scholar and expert witness. Her career underscores her commitment to justice and human rights.