200 E. SEB, E. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043
Email: castag@umich.edu

EDUCATION

AWARDS, HONORS, & FELLOWSHIPS

2017 Susan Lipschutz, Margaret Ayers Host and Anna Olcott Smith Awards ($8000)
2014 Ford Predoctoral Fellowship Honorable Mention
2013 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, University of Michigan
2012-2017 Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan
2012 Outstanding Master’s Student Award in Community and Social Change, University of Miami
2011 Haitian Studies Association Emerging Scholars Scholarship
2011-2012 Institute for Recruitment of Teachers Associate
2010 Rosen Family Fellowship in Community and Social Change, University of Miami
2006 Florida Fund for Minority Teachers Scholarship
2005 University of Miami School of Education Dupont Scholarship
2005 University of Miami School of Education Katie Dean Scholarship

GRANTS

2017 Guillaume, C., Sadie Nash Leadership Project. Rackham Grants in Public Scholarship $7,979.51 (Funded).
Project Title: Lead On!: Young Women Community Action Projects

2016 Guillaume, C., Mattis, J., & Govia, I. Office of the Vice Provost for Equity, Inclusion & Academic Affairs $10,000 (Funded)
Project Title: People of Caribbean and West Indian Descent (PCWID) Publication Writing Camp

2015 Gale, A., Osai, E., Cole-Lewis, Y., Guillaume, C., Jerald, M., Mattis, J., & Rochester, S., Department of Psychology $7,000 (Funded)
Project Title: National Black Graduate Conference in Psychology

2015 Cole-Lewis, Y., Jerald, M., Gale, A., Guillaume, C., Mattis, J., Osai, E., & Rochester, S., Office of the Dean, College of Literature Arts and Sciences $7,000 (Funded)
Project Title: National Black Graduate Conference in Psychology

2015 Guillaume, C., Rochester, S. Cole-Lewis, Y., Gale, A., Jerald, M., Mattis, J., & Osai, E. Office of the Dean, Rackham School of Graduate Studies $7,000 (Funded)
Project Title: National Black Graduate Conference in Psychology

2015 Mattis, J., Cole-Lewis, Y., Gale, A., Guillaume, C., Jerald, M., Osai, E., & Rochester, S. Office of the Vice-Provost of Equity, Inclusion and Academic Affairs $15,000 (Funded)
Project Title: National Black Graduate Conference in Psychology

2015 Guillaume, C., Jolly, J., Mattis, J., Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop Group
($5988.33) (Funded)
Role: Co-investigator
Project Title: People of Caribbean West Indian Descent (PCWID)

2014 University of Michigan Race and Educational Inequality Student-Faculty Co-authored Manuscript Grant ($2685)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project Title: Influence of Parent Discrimination Experiences on Black Immigrant Youths’ Academic Achievement Outcomes

2011 University of Miami Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), Graduate Student Field Research Grant ($1,300)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project Title: Cap-Haïtien, Haiti Mental Health Capacity Building Training
Program

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2015-2016 Instructor, School of Education, University of Michigan
Course: Educational Psychology
Responsibilities: Developed syllabus and reading list, responsible for grading; actively participated with other course instructors to develop exam materials; provided students with critical feedback on incorporating principles of educational psychology into their classroom practice.

2014-2015 Instructor, School of Education, University of Michigan
Course: Partners in Authentic Learning in School (PALS).
Responsibilities: Developed syllabus and reading list; provided academic/pedagogical support to students as they provided onsite tutoring and mentoring to local middle school students; coordinated course with families, teachers, and community members in K-12 public school setting.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2015-present Wolverine Pathways
Faculty Director: Robert Jagers
Summary: Year-round program partners with the families, schools, and communities of Ypsilanti and Southfield. This partnership provides learning experiences that will help students succeed in school, college and future careers.
Responsibilities: Quanitative evaluation team member; develop protocols for interviews, focus groups, on site observations; design and develop qualitative research designs for longitudinal study of socio political development among parent child dyads.

2015-present Mattis Lab
PI: Jacqueline Mattis
Summary: Mattis Lab at the University of Michigan examines the link between religiosity, spirituality and positive social outcomes and prosocial behavior among African-American and Afro-Caribbean urban residing adults and adolescents.
Responsibilities: Develop manuscripts for publication; assist with ongoing data analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.

2013-present Contexts of Academic and Social Adjustment (CASA) Lab
PI: Deborah Rivas-Drake
Summary: CASA Lab at the University of Michigan examines school, family, and peer contexts of development –from early adolescence through young adulthood – among diverse youth.
Responsibilities: Manage dataset for longitudinal study examining ethnic-racial identity, peer relations, academic outcomes, and civic engagement among youth in middle school; ongoing analysis of data using structural equation modeling; assist with design and development of surveys for study of longitudinal study of Latino parents and adolescents; preparation of manuscripts.

2012- present Promoting Positive Youth Development Lab
PI: Robert Jagers
Summary: Qualitative research team at the University of Michigan focusing on research and intervention projects to understand and promote positive academic, civic, and social-emotional development in predominantly minority community settings; sociopolitical development; critical consciousness; service-learning; youth participatory action research.
Responsibilities: Development of manuscripts for publication; assist with ongoing coding and analysis of qualitative data.

2012-2014 Fathers and Sons Project
PI: Cleopatra Caldwell
Summary: Family oriented, community-based intervention that facilitates the involvement of non-resident African American fathers in the lives of their sons by engaging them in exercises that strengthen and build parenting-skills by using culturally relevant and gender- specific activities.
Responsibilities: Analyze mixed method data; prepare manuscript for publication.

2012-2013 Center for the Study of Black Youth in Context
PIs: Stephanie Rowley, Robert Sellers, Tabbye Chavous, Carla O’Connor &
Robert Jagers
Summary: Research and action related to the social, psychological, and educational development of African American youth.
Responsibilities: Met with quantitative research team to develop analysis plans; provide feedback on research in progress.

2010-2012 Challenging Racism and Empowering Communities through Ethnocultural Research (CRECER) Research Team
PI: Guerda Nicolas
Summary: CRECER lab at the University of Miami aims to develop and implement empirically-based and culturally-driven community programs in collaboration with community partners.
Responsibilities: helped to develop and review team manuscripts, data cleaning, inputted quantitative data, and assisted with focus groups.

2011-2012 Mental Health Capacity Building Training Program Cap-Haïtien, Haiti
PI: Guerda Nicolas
Summary: Mental health training program targeting local doctors and nurses, built participants capacity for culturally relevant.
Responsibilities: Created and led mixed-methods program evaluation for community based training program; provided on-site support to program staff in the form of translation and field notes; entered, managed and analyzed participant data on SPSS software; co-authored executive summary of project for program stakeholders; maintained program files for IRB quality assurance.

2010- 2012 Psycho-Social Program Petit Goave, Haiti
PI: Guerda Nicolas
Summary: Intervention aimed to increase capacity and sustainability of psychosocial programming. Trained community based psychosocial workers, religious and community leaders to recognize symptoms of psychological distress.
Responsibilities: Assisted with the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from community driven psycho-social intervention program. Developed culturally-specific mental health symptoms screening tool.

2010 Healing Little Haiti, Little Haiti, Miami, Little Haiti, Miami, Florida
PI: Erin Kobetz and Guerda Nicolas
Summary: Campus-community partnership to identify Haitian Diaspora’s needs in Miami following the 2010 Haitian earthquake.
Responsibilities: Surveyed community members in Haitian-Creole using a culturally sensitive surveying tool on impact of earthquake on Haitian residents.

2010-2012 RECAPS Research Team
PI: Laura Kohn-Wood
Summary: Race, Ethnicity, Culture and Promoting Strengths (RECAPS) team at the University of Miami investigate reverse mental health disparities in Blacks and Latinos. RECAPS seeks to study the strengths of these groups to learn how they contribute to their coping and managing of discrimination to and inform the design of programming and community interventions.
Responsibilities: Coordinated and gathered data from community project for youth after school program. Collaborated with team members on research publications, posters, and presentations.

PUBLICATIONS

Manuscripts in Press
Jagers, R. J., Lozada, F. T., Rivas-Drake, D., & Guillaume, C. (2017). Classroom and school predictors of civic engagement among Black and Latino middle school youth. Child development, 88(4), 1125-1138.

Rivas-Drake, D., Camacho, T. C., & Guillaume, C. (2016). Chapter Six-Just Good Developmental Science: Trust, Identity, and Responsibility in Ethnic Minority Recruitment and Retention. Advances in child development and behavior, 50, 161-188.

Guillaume, C., Jagers, R., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2015). Middle School as a Developmental
Niche for Civic Engagement. American journal of community psychology, 56(3-4), 321-331.

Nicolas, G., Wheatley, A., & Guillaume, C. (2015). Does one trauma fit all? Exploring the
relevance of PTSD across cultures. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, 8(1), 34-45.

Nicolas, G., Byer, K., Guillaume, C. (2013). The Guiding Principles of Implementing a Mental Health Capacity Program Internationally: Focus on Haiti. International Psychology Bulletin (Volume 17, No. 3) Summer 2013.

Whitt, C.L., Smith, L.E., Bernal, D.R., Schwartz, B.S., Christman, S.T., Donnelly, S., Wheatley, A., Guillaume, C., Nicolas, G., & Kobetz, E. (2014). Coping through contact: The role of family, faith, and community in the coping responses of Haitian Americans following the 2010 earthquake. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 42(1), 2-12.

Manuscripts in Preparation
Guillaume, C., Mattis, J., & Jagers, R. (in preparation) Predictors of Altruism among African American Adolescents.

Guillaume, C., Caldwell, C. (in preparation). Non-Residential African-American Fathers Influence on their Sons’ Racial Socialization and the Link to Sons’ Academic Outcomes.

PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Guillaume, C., Seraphin, W. (2017). Ti Moun Icit, Memn!”: Unpacking Haitian/Haitian American Coming of Age Counternarratives on Social Media Platforms. 29th Annual Haitian Studies Association Conference. Paper presentation. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Alexis, Y., Celeste, M., Guillaume, C., Sanders-Johnson, G. (2016). Haiti’s Environmental
Realities: The Politics of Black Lives Matter in the Americas. 28th Annual Haitian Studies Association Conference. Discussion Symposium. Cap-Haitien, Haiti.

Guillaume, C., Hope, E., Banales, J.,Voight, A. (2016). Youth Civic Engagement among Early
Adolescents of Color: Examining the Role of Proximal Contexts. Discussion Symposium Society for Research in Adolescence. Baltimore, MD.

Guillaume, C., Kohn-Wood, L., Jean-Baptiste, V, Chan, W. Y. (2013). Community Based
Practice-Culturally Biased Perspectives: Challenges Associated with Outsider Interventions. Panel presentation at the Society of Community Research and Action. University of Miami. Coral Gables, FL.

Guillaume, C., Wheatley, A., & Nicolas, G. (2011).”Kilti ak kominote”: Understanding and
improving Haitian mental health. Panel presentation for the Haitian Studies Association Conference, Kingston, Jamaica.

Wheatley, A. & Guillaume, C. (2011). Healing Little Haiti: Coping responses and help-seeking following the 2010 earthquake. Poster presented at the Caribbean Regional Conference of
Psychology, Nassau, Bahamas. =

Guillaume, C. & Wheatley, A. (2011). Psychosocial Wellness amongst Haitian Females Post
Earthquake in Petit Goave, Haiti. Poster presented at the Caribbean Regional Conference of Psychology, Nassau, Bahamas.

Guillaume, C. (2011) Community Participatory Approaches to International Intervention,
Panelist. Haiti: One Year after the Earthquake Faculty Panel. Center for the Humanities, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.

Guillaume, C. (2012) Ayisyen ede Ayisyen: Community-Capacity Building through the Haitian
Diaspora and International Aid. Poster accepted at Teachers College Winter Roundtable. New York, NY.

Invited Presentations
Guillaume, C. (2010). Approaches to Reframing Organizational Missions towards Social
Change, Panelist. Linking, Advocacy, Policy and Service, 2nd Annual Girls Coalition Conference Miami, FL.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2012 Youth Development Specialist, Urgent Inc. Overtown, FL

• Identified, trained and supported youth leaders to develop their own organizing efforts and take action on issues impacting their communities
• Facilitated conversations where youth members developed and carried out issue campaign around ‘Teen Dating Violence’, devised organizing strategies, prepared and implemented Miami-Dade County Public School Board presentation obtained media coverage

2012 Museum Educator, Haitian Heritage Museum, Miami, FL

• Responsible for designing and implementing Haitian cultural workshops to Middle School students participating in Museums Magnet Program

2011 Project Coordinator, Project Hope Outreach Ministries Liberty City, FL

• Primary liaison between the organization and campus community partnership with UM as part of graduate assistantship
• Maintained and submitted monthly attendance records to donors
• Responsible for office management including the replenishing of supplies
• Scheduled and created on and off campus enrichment activities for 200 program participants

Breakthrough Miami (BT Miami)
2008 –2010 Associate Site Director, BT Miami, Doctors Charter School, Miami, FL

• Co-managed operating budgets for summer institute and school year program
• Managed staff of 30 during annual Summer Institute and School Year Programs
• Created ‘Family Association’ to increase constituent influence on service delivery
• Trained and performed ongoing professional development for teaching interns
• Created the “Sociology of Education” workshop series to contextualize/inform programmatic goals
• Planned, implemented, and managed student recruitment and admission process
• Produced and led various stakeholder targeted community engagement events
• Initiated and sustained community partnerships with local non-profit organizations

2008 Founding Co-Director, BT Miami, Doctors Charter School, Miami, FL

• Participated in Collaborative National think tank discussions on program implementation
• Managed program data bases, ETO and Children’s Trust Data Tracker to track family participation
• Collaborated with program team members in the development of engaging curriculum models
• Built and sustained relationships with families, student’s, current and future school

2007 –2008 Program Intern/ English Dept. Head, BT Miami, Ransom Everglades, Miami, FL

• Collaborated with program director to design and coordinate all aspects of the Saturday Academy
• Executed staff/intern recruitment campaign at local universities and high schools
• Facilitated department meetings, on-going trainings and observed classrooms to help support department of 6 teaching interns throughout 8 week summer internship

2006 –2007 Paraprofessional, English Department, Doctors Charter School, Miami, FL

• Conferred with students regarding classroom progress, provided one-on-one tutoring

Miami Science Museum

2007-2008 Youth Science Mentor, Duarte Park, Miami Science Museum, Miami, FL

• Designed and led 30 elementary students in math and science after school curriculum

2006-2007 Tutor/Assistant Teacher/Mentor Assistant, America Counts, Coconut Grove, FL

• Provided after school homework assistance and mentoring for Upward Bound program participant

OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

2011- 2012 Rebati Sante Mental, Inc. Haiti, Canada, and United States

• Provided administrative support to organization aimed at Increasing awareness of mental health in Haiti and among affected members of the Haitian community in the diaspora
• Manage social networking sites to increase organizational outreach

2010-2011 Metrotown Miami, FL

• Coordinated and planned program logistics for Miami Coalition of Christians
  and Jews First youth leadership and diversity education summer program
• Initiated and designed community engagement plan to help facilitate student/staff recruitment
• Crafted communication and outreach materials to support recruitment plan

2010-2011 Women’s Fund of Miami Dade County Miami, FL

• Created financial and organizational capacity assessment tool for fund’s 30 grantee partners
• Coordinated, scheduled and manage assessment processes
• Provided written analysis and report of grantee assessment process
• Built launch plan for grantee centered web based resource center

2010 Sant La, Haitian Neighborhood Center Miami, FL

• Provided program support for the Strengthening Families program
• Assisted with resume and job referral support to unemployment services program
• Provide logistical and administrative support for annual fundraiser

2010 Green Family Foundation Miami, FL

• Assisted Executive Director with electronic archival of foundation documents

Academic Service
2014- 2015 Annual National Black Graduate Student in Psychology Conference.
National Conference Institutional Planning Committee
2014-Present People of Caribbean Descent (PCWID), Co-Chair
2014- 2015 Black Psychological Student Association (BSPA), Chair
Winter 2013 CPEP Executive Committee
2013- 2014 Diversity Recruitment Chair, Black Psychological Student Association
2013- 2014 Diversity Recruitment Committee Member UMich Dept. Psychology
2013- 2015 Emerging Scholar Committee Member, Haitian Studies Association
2012- 2014 Newsletter Co-editor, Haitian Studies Association
2012- 2014 Caribbean Regional Psychology Association- Steering Committee
2014- 2014 Caribbean Regional Psychology Association- Scientific Committee Reviewer
2011- 2011 Annual National Black Graduate Student in Psychology Conference.
National Conference Institutional Planning Committee

ADVANCED METHODOLOGICAL TRAINING

Advanced Methodological Coursework, University of Michigan
Course: Structural Equation Modeling (2014), Qualitative Research Methods I (2014)
Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, Interuniversity Consortium for
Political and Social Research
Course: Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis I & II (2012)
Advanced Methodological Coursework, University of Miami
Course: Community Based Participatory Research (2010)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Haitian Studies Association
American Psychological Association
Society for Research on Adolescence DIV 27
Division of Ethnic Minority Affairs DIV 45
Caribbean Alliance of National Psychological Associations

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Haitian-Creole: proficient in oral language, reading, and writing