About

Jacob Wong-Campbell (he/him) is a Ph.D. candidate in Higher Education and Student Affairs at The Ohio State University, with research interests in multiraciality, monoracism, and the quantification of race in higher education. His dissertation explores how Institutional Research professionals make meaning of multiracial data (e.g., Two or More Races), including dilemmas they face when representing multiraciality in data visualizations.

As a Bolder Futures Fellow with AAPI Data, Jacob launched racedataviz.com as a platform to cultivate a community of data designers dedicated to identifying inequity and advancing action toward racial justice.

Selected Publications

Developing antiracist intelligence in institutional research: A critical content analysis of AIR Forum conference programs, 2002-2023 (Wong-Campbell, 2025)
Research in Higher Education

Disrupting quantitative monoracism in institutional research: Critical considerations for multiracial categorization (Wong-Campbell et al., 2024)
The AIR Professional File

Defining mixed-race college students: Multiracial (re)categorization and the visibility of graduation gaps (Wong-Campbell & Ramrakhiani, 2024)
Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

Selected Presentations

“Missing the California-ness in our data”: Measuring multiraciality in IR (Wong-Campbell, 2025)
California Association for Institutional Research Annual Conference

Monoracism and genderism in data visualizations across the CSU (Wong-Campbell & Baxter, 2025)
California Association for Institutional Research Annual Conference

Developing multiracial-inclusive data visualizations in IR (Wong-Campbell, 2025)
University of California, Office of Institutional Research and Academic Planning