Diane “Didi” Nguyen is the Team Coordinator for JSP. Prior to joining JSP, she worked as a Project Support Specialist on multiple projects in the criminal justice field at the Institute for Justice Research and Development at Florida State University for the states of Florida, Ohio, Indiana, and South Carolina. She first began her career in the legal field as a legal assistant on the Pradaxa and Accutane litigations at Levin Papantonio Law Firm in Pensacola, Florida. From then on, she worked as an adminitrative assistant at a counseling center that specialized in providing individuals who had experienced incarceration, with substance use disorder couseling, life management skills, anger management skills, and also individual counseling on other matters (domestic violence, trauma, marriage, etc.). She also conducted state approved HIV training courses for staff there as well.

Nguyen holds two Bachelor’s degrees – a Bachelor of Science degree in Community Health Education and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, both from the University of West Florida. Nguyen is also a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and her goal is to educate, help, and assist individuals who have made contact with the criminal justice system to promote positive behaviors and develop well-being.  

In her spare time, Nguyen loves to travel and explore new places, play with her American Bulldog, Blue and tortie cat, Jubi, spend time with her husband, and share her love and passion of food (mainly desserts!) with others. Her favorite animals are pigeons, beluga whales, and capybaras. She is also an advocate of joining the fight against multiple sclerosis, as she was diagnosed with a rare subtype of MS called Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis in 2018.