Cynthia Juniper, MA

Cynthia Juniper joined the Ray Marshall Center in July 2011. As a Research Associate, Ms. Juniper continually builds upon her skills as a qualitative researcher and a practitioner of community-based participatory research. As a program evaluator, her areas of expertise include workforce development, social services and workforce supports, opportunity youth, and early childhood care and education.  

Prior to joining the Center, Cynthia served on the Senior Leadership Team with Community Action of Central Texas. During her employment with Community Action, she was responsible for the operation and quality of a number of local social service programs including Head Start, Early Head Start, Rural AIDS Services, Energy Assistance, Homelessness Prevention, and two area Senior Centers. Cynthia served as a trainer and consultant for Head Start programs throughout the Central Texas region.

Before working at Community Action, Cynthia taught undergraduate sociology at Texas Woman’s University and Texas State University, served as the director of two rape crisis programs, coordinated a family violence shelter and outreach program, worked on a Recovery from Rape research project with the Urban Institute, and a number of Head Start demonstration projects. She is a published poet and the author of Principles of Recovery from Abuse; A recovery guide for sexual assault survivors. Cynthia received her BS in Sociology and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, and her Masters in Sociology from the Texas Woman’s University.