What am I working on now?

Most Recent Publication

• Barry, M. P., Godwin, J., Lucas, R., Tordoff, D. M., Koenig, L. J., Goodreau, S.M. 2025. Demographic trends in gender identity among adults in the United States, 2014-2021. International Journal of Transgender Health, 1–20.

Some Current Research Projects

• Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity in the U.S.: Working with Dr. Steven M. Goodreau (Anthropology, UW) and Mike P. Barry (Epidemiology, UW) along with other collaborators at UW and the CDC to examine recent trends in the U.S. prevalence of sexual and gender minorities along the age, period, and cohort dimensions using YRBS and BRFSS data. Work supported by CDC grant U38-PS004646.
  • Barry, M. P., Godwin, J., Lucas, R., Tordoff, D. M., Koenig, L. J., Goodreau, S.M. 2025. Demographic trends in gender identity among adults in the United States, 2014-2021. International Journal of Transgender Health, 1–20.
  • Godwin, J., Barry, M. P., Koenig, L., Williams, A., Suarez, N., Hoover, K., Delaney, K., Hamilton, D. Goodreau, S. M. Under revision. Sexual orientation in the United States, 2014-2021: age, period and cohort effects.
• Excess Mortality in Puerto Rico following Hurricane María: Work with Drs. Sameer Shah (School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, UW) and Mary Angelica Painter (Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder) to estimate the excess mortality in Puerto Rico following Hurricane María on a finer age- and spatial-scale than previous work.
• Synthesizing Local Housing Data to Compare to the Census Bureau: Work with Diana Canzoneri (Demographer, City of Seattle), Jennifer Pettyjohn (GIS Specialist, City of Seattle), and Ron Prevost (Consultant, Demographic Analytics Advisors) to identify discrepancies between the Census Bureau’s housing units data and local sources such as the King County Assessments tax parcel data and the City of Seattle’s building permits. We aim to understand and rectify these discrepancies ahead of the 2030 Census.

Applied Research Fellowship Program: Summer 2025

I am the Project Lead for the Applied Research Fellowship Program supported by the University of Washington’s Population Health Initiative in partnership with CSDE. This summer, along with a team of three graduate and two undergraduate student fellows, we worked with King County Parks to assess the accessibility of our parks using two approaches: 1) GIS and spatial statistics to assess county-wide access and 2) naturalistic observation and informal interviews to assess Dick Thurnau Memorial Park in urban, unicorporated King County. Final report coming soon!