This Week We Feature Young Professional Quéyanna K. Guishard
Some among us are simply born to become high achievers and this week’s Young Professional can be counted as no different. With an immense sense of focus and determination, this week’s Young Professional, Quéyanna K. Guishard, has catapulted herself to stratospheric heights at a very early age.
A resident of East End, Quéyanna grew up as an only child under the watchful eyes of her mother and father attending Alexandrina Maduro Primary and later Elmore Stoutt High School. She then studied briefly at the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) before moving to DeVry University in Atlanta.
She graduated as one of the youngest in the Atlanta area at age 20 years with a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice and immediately moved on to a graduate degree in the same field and later completing her Master’s degree by age 22.
Quéyanna has worked in several roles briefly including as a Clerical Officer and Professional Cadet but her most memorable role has been that of acting Personal Assistant in the Deputy Governor’s Office which she performed for just over a year.
She has described this as her most challenging and demanding role to date and said it offered an invaluable learning experience for her fledgling career as a young professional. Some of the critical lessons she took away from the post, Quéyanna said, included prioritising issues and remaining ahead of things.
Since that post, Quéyanna has risen to her calling in working as an Intelligence Crime Analyst with the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF). Her influence, she disclosed, comes for her passion for deterring all levels of crime in the Territory and this is what largely led her in the pursuit of studies in Criminal Law.
Our Young Professional said she loves her job and takes pleasure in performing her various functions. “I just wanted to do something where I would have a bit of a challenge and I could actually help and make a bit of a difference somewhere,” the young Analyst expressed.
Although it can be overwhelming at times and entails a lot of reading, Quéyanna remains steadfast at what she does. “It’s nothing like I’ve ever experienced at all,” she says of her role.
She now hopes to pursue computer studies at the local college which will eventually allow her to work in cybercrime as well.
Outside of her day job, Quéyanna said she also loves to travel and is an avid shoe shopper as well. She hopes to one day become an entrepreneur in her own right as well by acquiring her own shoe store and car rental. She also has a passion for music and has played the clarinet, violin and piano. She now serves as a member of the Follow The Movement Group after being highly recommended by her former boss to the President of the Group.
Our Young Professional also expressed an intense passion for working with children and worked briefly at a Daycare Centre during her studies. “I really, really like kids and have the utmost respect for them because I respect their intelligence, their youth and their imagination…” she related. She hopes to someday also work in the Family and Juvenile Unit of the Force.
Quéyanna advises youths to never let finances be a deterrent to achieving their dreams, “Never let the money be the issue… I didn’t get a scholarship but I didn’t let that stop me,” she said, "I have fun but I work hard first."
46 Responses to “This Week We Feature Young Professional Quéyanna K. Guishard”
Love you dearly.
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To God be the glory and may he continue to bless you aboundantly, guard, guide and direct your path as you continue to excel in life.
You are a gem, continue to always be mindful of others as your reward will be highly favoured.
I Love you my Gem.
Your such wonderful inspiring lady.
Pretty inside out.
Hope you inspire others in the community to be the same.
But how far can you go ?? Only by trying you will know. Hope you keep on walking forward.
Kindest Regards