Former Instituto M.A. Student to Join APSA Committee

Yazmín García Trejo (MA ’07) has been appointed to the American Political Science Association Committee on the Status of Latinos and Latinas. She is a survey statistician and researcher at the US Census Bureau, Center for Survey Measurement, working with the language and cross cultural group on Census participation and Census knowledge among hard-to-count populations. García, along with co-authors Nancy Bates and Monica Vines, recently published a research article called “Are Sexual Minorities Hard‑to‑Survey? Insights from the 2020 Census Barriers, Attitudes, and Motivators Study (CBAMS) Survey.” It appeared in the Journal of Official Statistics in 2019.