Jamie Tester Morfoot, JD, MSW

Professor Tester Morfoot began her career in the non-profit sector working in residential care facilities serving youth who had experience with addiction, trafficking, and trauma. She has also worked in non-profit settings serving families struggling with barriers to employment including transportation, lack of educational attainment, high/special needs childcare necessities, intimate partner violence, and poverty. 

Her professional areas of interest include human rights, professional preparation for future child welfare workers regardless of discipline, policy development and analysis, and a commitment to continue to improve the working relationships between the court system and social service providers to lessen the negative outcomes experienced by vulnerable populations intersecting with these systems.