Julia Lejeune

Julia Lejeune is a Clinical Psychology doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, studying the social and contextual factors that shape youth mental health and pathways to care. She is particularly interested in understanding how various youth-serving institutions, like schools or psychiatric services, approach neurodiversity and suicidality in young people. Julia hopes to use participatory action research and mixed methods to center youth narratives as guides in developing new systems of care.