According to Jeremy Goldbach, a professor at Washington University who started P&E in 2010 and is now conducting the project. After the award was revealed in 2022, he said,
“It is humbling to look back at all the youth who gave us their time, let us interview them, took our surveys, and helped us learn.” According to his biography,
Goldbach’s research on “minority stress and discrimination among LGBTQ+ children and adolescents” has been “continuously funded” by a number of government authorities since 2012.