Jéssica Marisol Marroquín

Marisol Marroquín is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Work at Rutgers University-Newark (RUN) and is affiliated faculty for the Disability Studies Minor, Department of Urban Education, RUN, and the Center for Youth Social Emotional Wellness, Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology, Rutgers, New Brunswick. She is a social worker with clinical practice and research experience, whose overall work aims to improve health and mental health equity for historically marginalized communities. Her work specializes in understanding the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, immigration, and disability, particularly with Latinx autistic communities. Marroquín’s work addresses the need to understand health equity through intersectional and systemic frameworks by identifying systems of oppression and structural inequities. She utilizes strengths-based and community-based research approaches to advance social justice for diverse communities and to enhance culturally responsive care.Before her current role, Marroquín was also a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University, focusing on addressing health inequities, including racism, xenophobia, and ableism. She received her Ph.D. from Arizona State University’s School of Social Work. She earned her master’s in social work (MSW) degree with a specialization in Integrated Health from California State University, Long Beach, and has 6 years of clinical social work experience in both Arizona and California. Her undergraduate degree is from Whittier College, with majors in Spanish and Social Work and a minor in Psychology. She is a Guatemalan American first-generation graduate passionate about educational equity and uplifting historically marginalized people in educational spaces.