Valerie A. Brooke, M.Ed.
Valerie Brooke, M.Ed., has been a faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and has worked in the field of employment for people with significant disabilities for more than 35 years. Ms. Brooke is Project Director of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Employer Practices, Director of Wehman Training for the VCU's Autism Center of Excellence, and Director for Employment Services, a Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities–accredited program serving individuals from the state vocational rehabilitation program. Ms. Brooke completed an 18-month appointment to the Advisory Committee on Increasing Competitive Integrated Employment for Individuals with Disabilities by the U.S. Secretary of Labor as a provision of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), and she has served on the editorial board for the Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation since 2000.