COSSA Board Member Sara Curran Comments on U.S. Race & Ethnicity Standards

On March 16, The Seattle Times quoted Director of the University of Washington’s Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology and At-Large member of COSSA’s Board of Directors Sara Curran in an article on the need to update the U.S. standards of collecting race and ethnicity data. The recent push to revise the race and ethnicity data standards has been a priority of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which has led town halls to collect public feedback on the proposed changes to the standards (see previous COSSA coverage).

In the article, Dr. Curran states that “these categories change as communities form and identify themselves and become differentially meaningful over time, and we need to keep up with that.” Read the full article for more details.