About
Julian Graef is a Research Analyst with Seattle Jobs Initiative, where he supports the qualitative research and project management needs of the Policy Research and Evaluation Team. In this role, he oversees the collection and analysis of interview, focus group, and survey data, providing policymakers, leadership teams, and boards with the insights they need to improve equity, expand access, and increase the impacts of their workforce development programs.
Prior to his current role, Dr. Graef led the community engagement and data collection for WorkSource Seattle King-County, where he coordinated between the Workforce Development Council and several dozen WorkSource Partners, including ESD, WIOA providers, and local CBOs.
Before entering the human service sector in 2015, Graef, a US Navy veteran, completed his doctoral research project at the University of St Andrews, Scotland – an ethnography of a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the impact of a legal empowerment program managed by The Carter Center in Liberia, West Africa. In 2015, Dr. Graef’s research was published as an academic book, “Practicing Post-Liberal Peacebuilding.”
Publications & Reports
2025
Childcare Workforce Strategy, (forthcoming), K. Carson, E. Marlet, J. Graef
2024
Law Enforcement and Corrections Workforce Needs Assessment, K. Carson, E. Marlet, J. Graef.
Other Publications
2014
Practicing Post-Liberal Peacebuilding (1 ed.) Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave MacMillan; 2014. J. Graef.
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