Additional degrees include a JD degree from St. John's University School of Law and an LLM degree from New York University School of Law. She is licensed to practice law in Texas and New York. Her primary areas of teaching are employment and business law, compensation and employee benefits, management and organizational behavior, and legal research and writing. Dr. Valenti was a senior consultant with a global human resource consulting firm specializing in employee benefits and executive compensation, and practiced law in areas of tax, estate planning, commercial, and employment law. She is a Fullbright Scholar and in 2008-09 she lectured at National Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and Peking University in the Peoples Republic of China.