Board of Directors
Board Director
Mary Dozier, Ph.D. is the Amy E. du Pont Chair of Child Development at the University of Delaware. Mary and her lab study the development of young children who have experienced adversity. Together they have developed an evidence-based intervention, Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC), that is intended to enhance children’s ability to regulate behavior, emotions, and physiology.
JENNIFER RODRIGUEZ
Board Member
In 2007, Jennifer Rodriguez joined the Youth Law Center (YLC), a national public interest law firm that has worked for 4 decades to transform foster care and juvenile justice systems so every child and youth can thrive, and has served as Executive Director since 2012. Jennifer is the recipient of the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform Janet Reno Women’s Leadership Award, the Juvenile Law Center’s Leadership Prize, and was recognized in 2021 as a federal Children’s Bureau Champion for her national impact in transforming foster care to support families.
CAROLE SHAUFFER
Board Member
Carole Shauffer became Youth Law Center’s Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives in 2012 after serving as Executive Director since 1994, and before that, as a Staff Attorney since 1981. Carole’s work has focused on improving outcomes for foster youth through developing better services for infants and young children in the child welfare system, working with faith communities to provide support and services for at-risk youth, and reducing the use of shelter care for foster youth, particularly for infants and toddlers.