Kristian Jones
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Firearms and violence prevention, Mental health, Race, equity and identity
Expertise: Youth mentoring, community-based interventions, Black youth, gun violence, adolescent mental health
Kristian Jones studies how youth mentoring can be utilized to promote positive outcomes for young people, with a focus on community-based interventions such as mentoring programs. He is the Director of the Community Core at the University of Washington in the UW’s Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program, and is interested in how community-based mentoring interventions may reduce firearm violence.
He has worked as a behavioral health counselor and foster care counselor.
