Co-authored Defining Rurality, with Dr. Leah Buchard (JBA) for ZERO TO THREE. This brief provides guidance for states and sites on how to define and measure rurality more accurately (April 2025).

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Portfolio

Client Projects

Melanie Yu, ABD, Rutgers University School of Social Work. Used NVivo to triangulate analysis qualitatively for a study exploring refugee conceptualizations of reciprocity (n=55).

Dr. Iris Cardenas at University of Maryland, Baltimore. (Project 1) Co-developed an interpretive phenomenological study design to explore the role of culture among Latina intimate partner violence survivors’ recovery. Provided Research Assistants with hands-on analytical training.

(Project 2) Co-analyzing focus group and interview data using a rapid qualitative analysis approach for a program evaluation of an intimate partner violence mediation screening tool.

Rise Above Foundation.Worked with Director of Community Engagement and Impact to apply an equity-based perspective on how to measure program impact with underrepresented populations.

Professional Development

Student, Evergreen Data Visualization Academy

Member, Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA)

Member, American Evaluation Association (AEA)

Member, Child Wellbeing Research Network (CWRN)

Member, Society for Social Work Research

Vice President, Belmont Hills Library Board

Reviewer, Journal of Public Child Welfare

Invited Speaker: Structural Oppression: Implications for Social Work (MSW Course) University of Maryland, Baltimore

Guest Lecturer: Social Policy (MSW Course), Rutgers University, School of Social Work

“I would highly encourage any academic, regardless of their career stage, to seek out the chance to collaborate with Dr. Golden Guzman. She consistently provided timely responses and thoughtful feedback; her communication was both efficient and remarkably well-organized. Her qualitative research skills are exceptional and she has an impressive ability to contribute meaningfully to projects, even those outside her immediate areas of topical expertise. She offers insights that are both broad in scope and nuanced in detail. On a theoretical level, she challenged my thinking in ways I deeply needed, especially at a time when I felt stuck in my dissertation. I cannot speak highly enough of her mentorship and contributions.”

— Melanie Yu, Rutgers University

Publications

Golden Guzman, K. & Ast. R. A (2024). Centering community and mediating online survey threats: Case studies from social work research. Social Work Research.

Usher, K., Morehouse, E., Bertrand, J., Newburg-Rinn, S., & Golden Guzman, K. (2024). Foster Parents’ Need for Greater Information Sharing when Caring for Children with Prenatal Substance Exposure within Child Welfare. Journal of Public Child Welfare.

Williams-Butler, A., Cunningham, S., Gandarilla Ocampo, M., Golden Guzman, K., & Mendez, A. (2024). Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the state: The passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act in the United States. Journal of Social Policy.

Golden Guzman, K., Zhang, L. & Simmel, C. (2023) Examining the roles of ethnic density and rurality onmaltreatment referral and substantiation rates among Latine children and youth: A county-level analysis. Journal of Public Child Welfare.

Williams-Butler, A., Golden, K.E., Mendez, A., Stevens, B. (2020). Intersectionality and child welfare policy: Implications for Black women, children, and families. Child Welfare, 98(4).

Hokanson, K., Golden, KE., Singer, E., & Berzin, M. (2019). “Not independent enough.” Exploring the tensionbetween independence and interdependence among emerging adult former foster youth. Child Welfare, 97(5).

Carney, M.J., Golden, K.E., Weissler, J.M., Lanni, M.A., Bauder, A.R., Cakouros, B., Eriquez, F., Broach, R., Barg, F.K., Shapira, M.M., and Fischer, J.P. (2018). Patient-reported outcomes following ventral hernia repair: Designing a qualitative assessment tool.The Patient – Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, 11(2).

Stelson E., Carr B., Golden K.E., Martin N., Richmond T., Delgado M., Holena D. (2016). Perceptions ofFamily Participation in Intensive Care Unit Rounds and Telemedicine: A Qualitative Assessment. American Journal of Critical Care Medicine. Volume 25 (5).

Selected / Peer Reviewed