These are the current definitions we utilize in our applications and data summaries:

• Black, Afro-Caribbean, or African-American: A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa and its diaspora.
• Latina/o/x/e or Hispanic: A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.
• Asian or Pacific Islander: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, but not limited to, China, Japan, Korea, Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Hawaii, Guam, Samoa or other Pacific Islands.
• Middle Eastern or Arab: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Middle East, including, but not limited to, Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
• Indigenous/First Nations/Native American: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America).
• White or Euro-American: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe.
• Multi-Ethnic/Multi-Racial: A person having combinations of two or more of the above race/cultural heritage categories.
• Gender Identity: One's innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither – how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves - can be the same or different from their sex assigned at birth.
• Nonbinary: A person who identifies as nonbinary does not experience gender within the gender binary. People who are nonbinary may also experience overlap with different gender expressions, such as being gender non-conforming.
• Two-Spirit: Traditionally, Native American two-spirit people were male, female, and  sometimes intersexed individuals who combined activities of both men and  women with traits unique to their status as two-spirit people. In most  tribes, they were considered neither men nor women; they occupied a  distinct, alternative gender status.