CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — University of Illinois professor Julie Dowling will bring her expertise to Washington, D.C., and an audience of congressional staffers on Monday – part of a live-streamed briefing on “How the Millennial Generation is Reshaping America.”
A professor of Latina/Latino studies, Dowling will be one of two presenters at the afternoon briefing. The event, sponsored by the Population Association of America, will be held in the Rayburn House Office Building.
Dowling will discuss her own and others’ research on shifts in racial/ethnic identity and demographics in the U.S. She also will address the upcoming 2020 census, including concerns about its question on race and ethnicity and the proposed citizenship question.
The event will be livestreamed at 1 p.m. CDT on Twitter and Facebook, then available on the PAA website afterwards.
Dowling is in her fourth year on the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations. In her 2014 book “Mexican Americans and the Question of Race,” she wrote about the ways that people respond to race and ethnicity questions on the census.