Making every identity count: Free tool developed for better handling of identity data in research surveys

Growing up multiracial in the 1990s, Gabriel “Joey” Merrin regularly encountered demographic forms that forced an impossible choice: Pick one box. Deny the others. “That act of being forced to choose, to erase parts of myself from an official document, is at the core of this work,” says Merrin, who is an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Human Development and Family Science.

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