Luna Chandna is a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Population Research Center. She holds a PhD in Sociology, with a focus on Demography from Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on the measurement of race and ethnicity, and changes in individual identification over the life course. She is interested in studying the predictors and processes by which the changes occur, and what the changes mean for the social outcomes of different groups. Her postdoc work focuses on using parental and individual characteristics to accurately predict the changing racial and ethnic population of Oregon.