Dori-Taylor Carter '23

Dori-Taylor Carter is a fourth-year undergraduate student from Winnetka, Los Angeles, California majoring in American Studies with minors in French and Sociological Research in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. She is interested in the social and political work of censuses and racial statistics and their impact on community organizing in the US and abroad. She is currently working toward her senior thesis in American Studies, an independent research project that examines the ways that Asian American community organizations in Chicago, specifically Filipinx American community organizations, interact with the AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) label and the extent to which they are made visible and/or are obscured by aggregated census data on Asian Americans. Her research has been supported by the Posner Summer Research Fellowship, the Summer Research Opportunities Program, and the Weinberg College Baker Undergraduate Research Grant. In addition to being a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, she is a Posse Foundation Scholar and a leader in LGBTQ+ community organizing. She spends her free time performing spoken word poetry, embroidering, and hiking. After graduation, Dori-Taylor plans to pursue a graduate degree in sociology to continue her research on the census, with the goal of improving racial statistic-taking methods as a political tool for historically undercounted groups.