Joanne Rosen, President Daniels’ wife, is a human rights attorney who served as counsel to the Ontario Human Rights Commission in Toronto for 17 years, from 1988 to 2005. She litigated human rights claims at all levels of the Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

She also served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, teaching human rights law, and as an instructor in the Bar Admission Course.

While President Daniels was at the University of Pennsylvania, Rosen served as a lecturer at the university’s Annenberg School for Communication, where she taught courses on communications law and on the right to privacy.

Rosen is a 1982 honors graduate of York University in Toronto. She received a master of arts in psychology from the University of Toronto in 1983 and then attended law school there, earning her JD in 1986.

Rosen and President Daniels have four children: Roberta, Ryan, Drew and Alexandra.

Click here to see Joanne Rosen's curriculum vitae.