Dr. Monique A. Guishard
Associate Professor of Psychology
CUNY-Bronx Community College & The Bronx Research Review Board Inc.
Monique A. Guishard, PhD (she/her/hers) is a Blacktina, born on St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands and raised in the South Bronx. She is an accomplished storyteller, educator, community social psychologist, research ethicist, and organizer. Her work pairs critical theory, lived experience, and robust Black feminist epistemologies to endarken mainstream research ethics paradigms. Dr. Guishard is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Deputy Chairperson at her alma mater, Bronx Community College (BCC). She is the chair of the Board of Directors of The Bronx Community Research Review Board (www.BxCRRB.org). Guishard is a board member of CUNY’s Center for LGBTQ Studies and a founding member of The Public Science Project’s Critical Participatory Action Research Institutes. Monique was the Principal Investigator of the $250,000 PCORI Eugene Washington funded: Community Engaged Research Academy. CERA was an interstitial Black educative space designed to nurture research ethics and research methods literacy among Bronx patients. Guishard has 16-years of experience working in partnership with: young people, parent organizers, environmental justice advocates, and a community-based research ethics review board—on mutually beneficial research partnerships. Lastly, Dr. Guishard is the Northeast Coordinator of the American Psychological Association Division 27, The Society for Community Research and Action.
Dr. Jason Williams
Assistant Professor of Justice Studies
Montclair State University
Interrogating Power Dynamics in Research: Why Black Voices Matter
Dr. Williams is a critical criminologist who engages in race and justice research. He is a staunch qualitative researcher, grounded in community-based research. He believes in foregrounding marginalized people’s voices and lived experiences as they matriculate institutions of justice (in formal and informal contexts). Dr. Williams’ research interrogates the power dynamics inherent in mainstream research and power dynamics in social institutions. He has published in many areas: policing, citizen reentry, gender, social control, social justice, and philosophical criminology. Some of his recent work has uncovered Black males and women’s plights as they navigate reintegration after incarceration. He has also analyzed narratives from Ferguson and Baltimore surrounding African Americans’ experiences and perspectives with policing. Moreover, he plans to start a project that would include community-based participatory research that contextualizes the narratives of immigrant Middle Eastern and Asian women’s experiences with domestic violence.
