DR. CAROLYN A. LIEBLER (she/her) is an associate professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She has a B.A. degree in sociology with a minor in statistics from Rice University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on the intersection of population studies and the social construction of race, with a special emphasis on how data on Indigenous peoples and Tribal Nations can be interpreted and used in a good way. Some of Dr. Liebler’s major contributions to demographic research include: calculating and incorporating race response change between censuses, creating a “Homelands” indicator variable for population analysis of Tribal Areas, and modeling the bridged race categories for the IPUMS ACS and decennial datasets from 2000 to 2019. Dr. Lieber has served as an expert demographer for tribes, the US Census Bureau, the National Academy of Sciences, and USDA / WIC. Through her consulting business, Pika Insights LLC, Dr. Liebler works directly with tribal leaders to estimate future enrolled populations under varying enrollment scenarios.