I had a great time at PAA 2025

I presented shared work with Professor William Dow and Henry Dow, comparing sociodemographic characteristics of older Hispanic adults in U.S. immigrant populations with those in their countries of origin, using census microdata and the American Community Survey (publication pending).

I also spoke on a panel organized by the Population Reference Bureau with others utilizing AI for demographic research. The panel discussed using Large Language Models for data categorization and theme extraction, best practices, and whether these models are ready to replace human annotators in these tasks (paper pending submission).

Shout outs to:

• Marc Garcia from Syracuse University for his great feedback on our paper during the Aging and Migration session.
• My co-author and advisor William Dow for his support and expertise.
• Junhe Yang from the University of Washington for her amazing work with language models to augment research.
• Mathew Hauer from Florida State University for sharing insights during the AI in demography panel.
• Diana Elliott, Vice President of Programs at PRB, for asking valuable questions during the AI panel.
• Emilio Zagheni for grounding the discussion during the AI in demography panel.
• Mao-Mei Liu for her constructive feedback and support on my presentation.
• Kraemer Winslow for her thoughtful advice on public speaking!