Julie Guyot-Diangone

Julie is a youth-focused researcher with an active interest in project development and implementation. She is a highly-competent qualitative and mixed methods researcher, who seeks out program solutions. Julie has developed innovation research strategies for hard-to-reach populations; identified gaps in programming; and applied her social work knowledge, values, and skills to clinical and analytic approaches to cultivating the resources embodied by marginalized African and African American youth globally. Julie has worked with a number of strong academic institutions, including the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the United States Institute of Peace, the Refugee Studies Center at the University of Oxford, and the Howard University School of Social Work.

Additionally, Julie has worked very closely with projects on the ground in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Tbilisi, Georgia, Mexico City, Mexico, Sihanoukville, Cambodia, the hurricane-affected areas along the Mississippi Gulf Coast; and, multiple sites within Ukraine, Tanzania and South Africa.

Within the District of Columbia, Julie has worked primary with service providers to improve the outcomes of clients served.

In addition to her community development efforts with Kuumba Initiatives, Julie is currently working on writing up two articles derived from her dissertation work, a resilience study of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone.

Julie paints poorly, takes lovely photos, and is busy raising rockstar children.