Appendix B

Committee and Speaker Biosketches

RANDALL K.Q. AKEE (Planning Committee, he/him) is an associate professor of public policy in the Department of Public Policy and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Luskin School of Public Affairs. Akee serves as chair of the American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program at UCLA, faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research; research fellow at both the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development and at the Institute for the Study of Labor, as well as both faculty affiliate at the UCLA California Center for Population Research and at UC Berkeley Center for Effective Global Action. His main research interests are labor economics, economic development, and migration. Akee’s current research focuses on income inequality and immobility by race and ethnicity in the United States. He has worked on several American Indian reservations, Canadian First Nations, and Pacific Island nations in addition to working in various Native Hawaiian communities. He has a Ph.D. degree in political economy from Harvard University.

JOEL ALVAREZ (he/him) is deputy director of the Population Division at New York City’s Department of City Planning. During his tenure at City Planning, he led the development of New York City Population FactFinder—a population profiling app. He has also developed methodology to assess the reliability of American Community Survey (ACS) map classification schemes along with a corresponding map reliability calculator. Alvarez has published guidance on best practices in the use of ACS data and written about New York City’s immigrant settlement patterns. His latest research focuses on the impact of formal privacy disclosure

avoidance techniques on the utility of Decennial Census data. He has a B.A. degree in anthropology from Binghamton University and an M.A. degree in geography from Hunter College.

MEETA ANAND (she/her) is senior director of census and data equity for The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund. Prior to this role, she served as a census consultant to the Leadership Conference Education Fund and as a New York immigration coalition’s census 2020 senior fellow, where she also served as the facilitator and convener of New York Counts 2020. Anand also worked at the White & Case LLP law firm as an associate in the project and asset finance group and also headed business development. She clerked at the Court of International Trade, worked as a commercial banker at Banco Santander, and assisted research in economics at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Anand has a B.A. degree in political science and economics from Tufts University, an M.A. degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

ANUBHAV BAGLEY (Planning Committee, he/his) is regional analytics director at the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG). He is responsible for regional socioeconomic datasets, geographic information systems, census activities, population projections and estimates, and the development and maintenance of regional land use models. The regional analytics team at MAG has been leading the development of innovative online platforms for displaying socio-economic, land use, and early education maps and analytics supporting planning and economic development needs. Prior to joining MAG, Bagley worked as an environmental and transportation consultant. Bagley has an M.A. degree in environmental planning from Arizona State University.

DANAH BOYD (Planning Committee, she/her) is a partner researcher at Microsoft Research, founder of the research institute Data & Society, and a distinguished visiting professor at Georgetown University. Her research blends science and technology studies, sociology, and computer science to examine how society shapes and is shaped by sociotechnical systems, with an eye toward how inequity and societal values manifest in algorithmic and data-oriented systems. boyd serves on the boards of Crisis Text Line and the Social Science Research Council; she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor to the Electronic Privacy Information Center. She has received numerous awards, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer/Barlow Award, the American Sociological Association’s Communication and Information Technology Public Sociology Award, MIT Tech Review’s TR35, and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic

Forum. boyd has a Ph.D. degree from the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.

GEORGE R. CARTER III (he/him) is the director of the Housing and Demographic Analysis Division (HDAD) in the U.S. Department Housing of Urban Planning and Development’s (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research. He oversees HUD’s housing market surveys program, which includes the American Housing Survey, the Survey of Construction, the Survey of Market Absorption of New Multifamily Apartments, the Manufactured Housing Survey, and the Rental Housing Finance Survey. Before working at HUD, Carter worked at the U.S. Census Bureau as a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Survey Methods Research and as a survey statistician in the American Housing Survey Branch. He is an urban sociologist and survey methodologist by training and has conducted research on homelessness, residential segregation, housing affordability, housing quality, housing insecurity, neighborhoods, negative equity, foreclosure, home equity conversion mortgages, utility costs, sexual orientation and gender identity measurement, as well as poverty measurement. Carter has a B.A. degree in sociology and philosophy from Haverford College, with an M.A. and Ph.D. degree in sociology from the University of Michigan.

KYLE R. CASSAL (he/his) is chief demographer at Esri and the lead developer for Esri’s data development team. He has extensive experience in applied demographic work in both the public and private sectors with specialization in small-area estimates, modeling, projections, market intelligence, and mapping. Prior to joining Esri, Cassal held the position of senior demographer for the State of Washington. He has a B.S. degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.S. degree in applied demography from Florida State University.

JULIA H. CHO (she/her) is senior social science analyst at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development, Innovation Center in the Data Analytics Division. Before joining the USDA, she was a visiting faculty at Chapman University, working on multi-disciplinary projects on socioeconomic impact of climate change in rural areas of Southeast Asia. Prior to that, Cho worked as a survey statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau, Los Angeles Regional Office, and taught at various universities such as University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Incheon National University in South Korea. Her research focuses on economic and social development in underserved and poverty-struck communities. Cho has a B.A. degree in political science/international relations from the University of California, San Diego, and a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA.

MIRANDA CHRIST (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in computer science at Columbia University, where she also serves as a presidential fellow. She is a member of the Columbia Theory Group, and her research focuses on practically motivated theoretical problems within cryptography, privacy, and complexity theory.

RACHEL CORTES (she/her) is a senior demographer at Claritas, where she creates small area estimates and projections for the United States. She started her career at the U.S. Census Bureau in the Population Division working on estimates of net international migration. Cortes also worked for the Population Reference Bureau and the San Diego Association of Governments on a variety of projects related to demographics in the United States. She has a B.A. degree in sociology from the University of Texas at San Antonio, with both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Texas A&M University.

MARY A. CRAIGLE (Planning Committee, she/her) is bureau chief of the Research and Information Bureau at the Montana Department of Commerce and director of the Census and Economic Information Center. She has decades worth of experience in the fields of economics and research. She has received several governor’s awards and ran the governor’s Montana Main Street Key Industry Network program. Her career includes several research manager positions with the state of Montana as well as running her own market research small business. Craigle serves as chair of the U.S. Census Bureau’s State Data Center Steering Committee, a member of Montana’s Ambassadors, and co-chair of the MT Economic Developers Association Workforce Committee. She has also served as the board chair of the Montana Community Foundation, overseeing an endowment of more than $120 million. Craigle has an M.A. degree in market research from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

JOHN DAVISSON (he/him) is director of litigation and senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). He has worked on a range of privacy and civil liberties issues at EPIC, including data protection, consumer privacy, open government, and census confidentiality protections. Davisson worked on the legal team that challenged the citizenship question to the 2020 Census under the E-Government Act. He also coordinated EPIC’s amicus brief in Alabama v. Department of Commerce defending the Census Bureau’s adoption of differential privacy for disclosure avoidance. Davisson previously clerked at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz and served in Georgetown’s Institute for Public Representation. He has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

JASON DEVINE (he/him) is the assistant division chief of the Census Programs Area within the Population Division at the U.S. Census Bureau. He has decades of experience at the Census Bureau, and during that time he has managed the Population Estimates Program, Demographic Analysis for the 2010 Census, Count Review for the 2020 Census, and the production of the 2020 Census apportionment counts. Devine’s latest focus has been on working on the 2020 Census data products including the implementation of a new disclosure avoidance methodology.

SIGURD DYRTING (he/him) is a demographer at the Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University. He specializes in the application of mathematical, statistical, and computational methods to demographic problems. Dyrting’s current research is on estimation techniques for small populations with an emphasis on preparing rate and population data used by practitioners for demographic analysis and population projections. He has a B.S. degree from Australian National University and a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Queensland, Australia.

ABRAHAM FLAXMAN (he/him) is associate professor of health metrics sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington where he leads the simulation science research team in the development of new methods for cost-effective analysis with microsimulation and is engaged in methodological and operational research on verbal autopsy. Flaxman has previously designed software tools such as DisMod-MR, which IHME uses to estimate the Global Burden of Disease. He has a B.S. degree in mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. degree in algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization from Carnegie Mellon University.

SARAH GARCIA (she/her) is the principal health equity data analyst for Fairview Health Services. At the time of the workshop, she was a research scientist at Wilder Research, where she works on the Minnesota Compass team. Garcia’s work focuses on health disparities and demography. She has an M.P.H. degree from the University of Minnesota, where she also completed the population training program at the Minnesota Population Center, and a Ph.D. degree in sociology from the University of Minnesota.

ELIZABETH E. GARNER (co-chair, she/her) is Colorado state demographer and directs the State Demography Office in the Department of Local Affairs. She also serves on the Colorado Governor’s Revenue Estimating Advisory Committee and is a steering committee member for the Federal-State Cooperative for Population Estimates. Garner’s work involves traveling the state talking with Coloradans about social and economic conditions

brought about by population shifts. Garner has decades of experience analyzing population and economic trends in Colorado. Her current research agenda involves examining Census 2020 results, demographic impacts from COVID-19, housing supply and demand, as well as aging. She has a B.A. degree in business from the University of San Diego and an M.A. degree in agricultural and resource economics from Colorado State University.

DOUG GEVERDT (he/him) directs the Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates Program at the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), where he pursues interests in educational geography, the geography of poverty, and school district demographic and economic indicators. Prior to joining NCES, Geverdt designed custom data products at the U.S. Census Bureau to support statistical and statutory education programs. He has a Ph.D. degree in educational foundations and policy from the University of Michigan.

KIRK GREENWAY (he/him) is the principal statistician of the Indian Health Service in Rockville, Maryland. Prior to becoming principal statistician, he was the senior statistician of patient care statistics in the Division of Program Statistics. Greenway has also worked with Navy Medicine as the Navy Medical Records Repositorian and at the National Center for Health Statistics as a health statistician in the National Hospital Discharge Survey. He has a B.A. degree in humanities and chemistry from Michigan State University, an M.A. degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago, and an M.P.H. degree in international public health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

SHARITA GRUBERG (she/her) is vice president for economic justice at the National Partnership for Women & Families, where she leads the economic justice team in providing expertise and thought leadership in research, advocacy, and policy work around many of the issue areas the organization has led on. She most recently conducted successful advocacy campaigns, engaged with diverse stakeholders, and led policy change at the Center for American Progress. Throughout her career, Gruberg has made it clear that the best way to advance economic justice policies that benefit women and families is to develop them through a lens of racial justice and with an awareness of the history that systemically has left out underrepresented communities. She has a B.A. degree in women’s studies and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.

CHRISTINE HARTLEY (she/her) is assistant division chief for estimates and projections in the Population Division at the U.S. Census Bureau, where

her primary responsibility is managing production, review, and dissemination of the official population and housing unit estimates for the United States and subnational geographies, as well as population projections for the nation. In this role, she is committed to continually improving the estimates production and dissemination processes by fostering relationships with external stakeholders, promoting rigorous research, and exploring innovative ways to meet the evolving needs of data users. Hartley has a Ph.D. degree in sociology, with a focus on demography and research statistics from Texas A&M University.

MICHAEL HAWES (he/him) is the senior advisor for data access and privacy at the U.S. Census Bureau. In this role, he is responsible for outreach and engagement with the Census Bureau’s data users on issues relating to the impact of privacy protection methodologies on the accessibility and usability of Census data. Hawes is a member of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) and chairs the FCSM’s Confidentiality and Data Access Committee. He has supported numerous federal government-wide initiatives relating to data privacy and confidentiality and served as privacy consultant to the federal Commission on Evidence-based Policymaking. Hawes has a B.A. degree in political science and history from Duke University and an M.A. degree in international relations from the University of Chicago.

LINYING HE (she/her) is the associate director of research for the Asian American Federation (AAF). Prior to joining the AAF in 2022, she worked at the United Nations (UN) and co-authored the UN Sustainable Outlook 2019 report, focusing on topics of economic insecurity, conflict, and population displacement. Previously, He worked at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and at the Vacant Property Research Network. She has an M.A. degree in city planning from University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. degree in urban planning from Columbia University.

KEN HODGES (he/him) is a demographic consultant at Claritas. Prior to this, he was chief demographer at Claritas, Nielsen, and Donnelley Marketing Information Services, where his work focused on small area demographic estimates and the use of Census data in private-sector information products. Hodges has served in numerous capacities including the 2010 Census Advisory Committee, Population Association of America Committee on Population Statistics, and as a board member of the Association of Public Data Users and the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics. He has a Ph.D. degree in sociology/demography from Cornell University.

V. JOSEPH HOTZ (co-chair, he/him) is arts and sciences distinguished professor of economics and public policy at Duke University. He is also

a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Hotz has a long history of working with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including membership with the Committee on National Statistics, the Panel on Access to Research Data: Balancing Risks and Opportunities, and the Panel on New Directions in Social Demography, Social Epidemiology, and the Sociology of Aging; as well as several studies relating to the Survey of Income and Program Participation. He is also the former chair of the Committee on Population Statistics (COPS) of the Population Association of America. Hotz has a Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

MARGARET HU (she/her) is professor of law and director of the Digital Democracy Lab at William & Mary Law School as well as research affiliate with the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences at Penn State University. Her research interests include the intersection of national security, cyber-surveillance, and artificial intelligence and civil rights. Previously, Hu served as senior policy advisor for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, also serving as special policy counsel for immigration-related discrimination in the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, in Washington, DC. Hu has a J.D. degree from Duke University Law School.

JILL KANEFF (she/her) is a demographer who has worked with the local and regional governments of the Northern Virginia region throughout her career. She also has extensive experience in geographic information systems (GIS). Kaneff is the manager of the demographics and data program and GIS program for the Northern Virginia Regional Commission. She has applied her demographic expertise extensively to the realm of government service planning, urban planning, economic development, and resiliency planning. Kaneff has a B.S. degree in geography from James Madison University and an M.S. degree in geography from the University of South Carolina.

OS KEYES (they/them) is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington’s Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering, where they work on questions of technology, power, and queer lives. They are an inaugural Ada Lovelace Fellow, and have been published in Cultural Studies, Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, Proceedings of the ACM on Computer-Human Interaction, Big Data & Society, and Feminist Philosophy Quarterly. A law graduate of the University of Northampton, Keyes is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

CAROLYN LIEBLER (she/her) is both an associate professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Her research focuses on the intersection of population studies and the social construction of race, with a special emphasis on how data on Indigenous peoples and tribal nations can be interpreted and used in a positive way to promote change. Liebler completed the National Institutes of Health-funded demography training program at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Demography and Ecology and her post-doctoral training was at the Minnesota Population Center working with IPUMS USA. She has a B.A. degree in sociology with a minor in statistics from Rice University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

ERICA MAURER (she/her) is senior demographic analyst in the Population Division at New York City’s Department of City Planning. Her primary focus at City Planning has been on population projections for the city, borough, and sub-borough geographies. She has also led the development of New York City Population FactFinder—an online application allowing users to build demographic profiles for custom-defined geographic areas. Maurer’s latest research focuses on the impact of formal privacy disclosure avoidance techniques on the utility of decennial census data. She has a B.A. degree in geography from Binghamton University and an M.A. degree in city and regional planning from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.

VICKIE M. MAYS (Planning Committee, she/her) is distinguished professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She also serves as distinguished professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management, visiting scholar at the Tuskegee University Bioethics Center, director of the UCLA BRITE Center for Science, Research, & Policy, as well as special advisor to the chancellor. May’s research focuses on the mental and physical health disparities affecting racial and ethnic minority populations. She has received a number of awards for her lifetime work in HIV, mental health, health disparities, and public policies, and her work on equity models and community activities for COVID-19 from the American Public Health Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Foundation for AIDS Research. She is currently a congressional appointee to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, where she is co-chair on data collection, capacity and quality of sexual orientation and gender identity, and social determinants of health data elements. Mays has an M.S.P.H. degree in health policy and health services from UCLA’s

Fielding School of Public Health and a Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

J. TOM MUELLER (he/him) is research assistant professor of geography and environmental sustainability, as well as a research faculty fellow in community resilience and justice at the Institute for Resilient Environmental and Energy Systems at the University of Oklahoma. As a rural sociologist and demographer, his work focuses on the geography of well-being and the environment in the rural United States. Mueller’s work is centered on the three areas of (1) environmental justice and environmental health, (2) rural well-being and hardship, and (3) data quality in rural areas. He has a B.S. degree from the University of Montana, as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in rural sociology and human dimensions of natural resources and the environment from The Pennsylavania State University.

AMY O’HARA (she/her) is research professor in the Massive Data Institute, executive director of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center at Georgetown University, and co-founder of the Civil Justice Data Commons. Her research interests include population measurement, data quality, and record linkage. Prior to her positions at Georgetown, O’Hara worked as a senior executive at the U.S. Census Bureau, where she founded its administrative data curation and research unit. She also served as an assistant chief of the Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications, where she worked on integrating data from administrative sources to reduce respondent burden and data collection costs while not compromising data quality. In particular, she led the 2010 Census Match Study, a first-ever match of the full set of returns of a decennial census to a composite of administrative data sources. O’Hara received an Arthur S. Flemming Award for leadership and management in the federal government. She has M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Notre Dame.

WILLIAM O’HARE (he/his) has more than 50 years of experience working with data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Previously, O’Hare has held numerous positions in state governments, non-profit organizations, and universities. He is the author of multiple articles based on Census data as well as a book focusing on measuring quality in the U.S. Census and a book on the undercount of young children in the U.S. Census. He formerly served as a consultant to the U.S. Census Bureau, and he is currently a consultant to The Leadership Conference Education Fund and The Count All Kids Campaign. O’Hare ran the KIDS COUNT project at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, where he used data from the U.S. Census Bureau to illuminate the well-being of children across the United States. He has a Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University.

SARAH RADWAY (she/her) is an interdisciplinary Ph.D. student in computer science and public policy at Tufts University, where she is a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow. She works at the intersection of technology and policy, specifically, in matters of privacy and equity. She works at the intersection of technology and policy, specifically matters of privacy and equity. Radway has a B.A. degree in computer science from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Kings Crown Leadership Award for Inclusion & Advocacy and the Department of Computer Science’s Theodore R. Bashkow Award.

LESLIE REYNOLDS is a research support specialist at the Cornell Program on Applied Demographics (PAD). She previously worked at the Center for Family and Demographic Research, where she performed demographic analyses and wrote multiple briefs on such topics as family demography. Her areas of interest include demographic methods, social inequality, health, and public policy. At PAD, Reynolds assists with Federal State Cooperative for Population Estimates’ duties such as collecting data for the annual Group Quarters Report, performing analysis on multiple Census products, and producing publications on important topics in the data and demography world. She recently wrote a paper on Measuring Race and Ethnicity With the 2020 Census Redistricting Data. Reynolds has an M.A. degree in applied demography from Bowling Green State University.

ROBERT L. SANTOS (he/him) is director of the U.S. Census Bureau. Prior to this, he served as vice president and chief methodologist at the Urban Institute, where he directed its Statistical Methods Group. His career has included survey research, statistical design and analysis, and executive-level management. Santos has held leadership positions in the nation’s top survey research organizations, including the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, and Temple University’s Institute for Survey Research. His interests include quantitative and qualitative research design, such as program evaluation, needs assessments, survey methodology, and survey operations. Santos also has expertise in demographic and administrative data, decennial censuses, social policy research, and equity issues in research. Currently, he is a fellow at the American Statistical Association (ASA) and served on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Health Statistics. Santos is the recipient of the ASA Founder’s Award and the American Association for Public Opinion Research Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement. He has a B.A. degree in mathematics from Trinity University in San Antonio and an M.A. degree in statistics from the University of Michigan.

ETHAN SHARYGIN (he/him) is a professor at the College of Urban and Public Affairs and director of the Population Research Center at Portland State University. His recent work focuses on statistical adjustments to improve census data quality and alternative population estimates, including REALD-compliant population estimates for the Oregon Health Authority to estimate COVID-19 vaccination rates. Sharygin’s research looks at demographic consequences of wildfire, in particular on small area estimation and migration impacts. He has collaborated on population and land use change projections to evaluate climate-population interactions for the State of California. He contributed to the design of a household survey by RAND Corporation to collect data on housing, population, and neighborhood characteristics as well as to the development of the Community Burden of Disease project, which was an initiative of the California Department of Public Health. Sharygin has a B.A. degree from the University of Washington, an M.P.P. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. degree in demography from the University of Pennsylvania.

HOWARD SHIH (he/his) is managing director at AAPI Data, a nationally recognized publisher of demographic data and policy research on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPI). At AAPI Data, he oversees efforts to make data more accessible and inclusive to address racial equity for AA and NHPI communities. Shih has authored or co-authored numerous reports on Asian Americans, covering topics such as employment and jobs, small businesses, poverty, seniors, mental health, and children. He led AAF’s 2010 and 2020 Census outreach initiatives to encourage Asian Americans to fully participate in the decennial censuses. Shih has a B.S.E. degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University and an M.S. degree in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

MARTA TIENDA (Planning Committee, she/her) is Maurice P. During professor in demographic studies, professor of sociology and public affairs emerita, and a visiting senior scholar at the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing at Princeton University. She is president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and past president of the Population Association of America, chair of the NRC Panel on Hispanics, and panel member on the National Research Council (NRC) Panel on the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Immigration. Currently, Tienda serves as an independent trustee of the Teachers Insurance Annuity Association, the Urban Institute, the Holdsworth Center for Excellence in Education, and the Robin Hood Foundation. Her research focuses on race and ethnic differences in various metrics of social inequality—ranging from poverty and welfare to education and employment—to address how ascribed attributes

acquire their social and economic significance. Tienda has a B.A. degree in Spanish from Michigan State University, with both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.

JAN VINK (Planning Committee, he/him) is extension associate at the Program on Applied Demographics (PAD) within the Cornell University Population Center at the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. He represents New York State in the Federal State Cooperative on Population Estimates and currently chairs that cooperative. Vink makes demographic data more accessible through PAD’s website, regularly publishes white papers on local demographic trends, and holds conversations with many stakeholders throughout the state. He also produces population projections for the New York counties. The Census Bureau invited him to participate in the Summer at Census program, where he talked about measuring accuracy in the differential private demonstration data sets and beyond. Vink has an M.A. degree in econometrics from the University of Groningen, Netherlands.

ANGELA WERNER (she/her) is lead data scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program and serves as the lead of CDC’s Differential Privacy Interest Group. Her work focuses on improving environmental public health surveillance through data modernization, data standards, and increasing data availability and accessibility, particularly around finer spatial resolution health outcome and environmental exposure data. Werner has been leading agency efforts on analyzing and assessing the 2020 Census data and potential impacts of differential privacy on public health work. She has a B.A. degree in biology from Franklin & Marshall College, an M.P.H. degree in environmental and occupational health from the George Washington University, and a Ph.D. in environmental health and epidemiology from the University of Queensland.

XIUHONG HELEN YOU (she/her) is associate director and senior demographer at the Texas Demographic Center at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She oversees the Center’s Population Estimates and Projections Program. You is also a state representative to the Census Bureau’s Federal State Cooperative for Population Estimates, and she served as chair to the Research Subcommittee. With a general interest in demography and public policy in Texas, her works covers a wide range of topics including population, welfare, education, migration, health, and health care in Texas. You has an M.A. degree in sociology from the Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. degree in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.

WEIWEI ZHANG (she/her) is associate professor of sociology in the School of Psychology, Sociology, and Rural Studies at South Dakota State University. She is also the state demographer of South Dakota and serves as the state representative for the Census Bureau’s Federal-State Cooperative for Population Estimates. Zhang was the state lead in participating in the 2020 Census Redistricting Data Program and the Count Review Program. Her scholarly work focuses on developing demographic, statistical, and spatial methods to bridge and analyze quantitative, qualitative, and spatial data. Zhang has a Ph.D. degree in sociology from Brown University.