Diana works as the research administrator for PRBA handling day to day activities associated with current funding and assisting with proposal management. She has worked at ISR/RCGD since 2006 and with PRBA since 2015.

Dr. Robinson is a researcher and senior program manager with more than 25 years of experience working with grassroots community groups, academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, churches, government agencies, and most recently, public libraries. She has lived, worked in, or traveled to 75 countries to date and has over 15 years’ experience in survey research methodology. She is the Co-PI on the African Americans Living Abroad Project being conducted by the Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA). There has not been a comprehensive study of African Americans living abroad globally because of numerous methodological challenges. Dr. Robinson is creating innovative strategies to address these challenges. In addition to the quantitative online survey, Dr. Robinson plans to conduct qualitative oral histories with African Americans currently living overseas.

Julie Sweetman has a BA in Psychology and Economics, and a MS in Survey Methodology, both from the University of Michigan. She has worked with PRBA in various capacities for nearly two decades. She was the data manager for the National Survey of American Life, maintaining the NSAL datasets across multiple platforms, creating many complex variables, and running analyses in SPSS, SAS, and Stata for many NSAL publications and presentations. She has been involved with the National Politics Studies, managing data from both paper-and-pencil questionnaires and Qualtrics online surveys. She has programmed and analyzed Qualtrics data to track the effectiveness of the MCUAAAAR mentorship programs. Julie also maintains a comprehensive master list of both NSAL and NPS publications.

Ms. Zell’s research interests are older adults and chronic conditions, and geriatric medical education.

Ms. Zell is a Project Coordinator for the MSU College of Human Medicine’s Office of Research. She coordinates collaborative research across disciplines, colleges, and domestic and international communities. She is the co-instructor and preceptor for the introductory research and health literacy classes for medical student courses. Ms. Zell organizes and mentors student research opportunities, approves and grades medical student research electives. She serves as the needs assessment coordinator and project operations manager on the Caring for Patients with Chronic Conditions (CPCC), Geriatric Rural Extension of Expertise through Telegeriatric Services (GREETS), Partners in Aging Strategies and Training (PAST) grants, served as an Evaluation Coordinator for the THRIVE grant and provides administrative support on the MCUAAAR grant. She conducted a study of CHM faculty perceptions of medical student and resident research. She managed the faculty search for seven public health research positions for Flint, MI.