Asian Americans Advancing
Justice - AAJC Applauds the Confirmation of Robert Santos
for Director of the U.S. Census Bureau
Robert Santos becomes the U.S. Census
Bureau’s first Senate-confirmed Director of color
WASHINGTON,
D.C.—Today,
the Senate confirmed Robert Santos on a bipartisan basis to serve as the
Director of the U.S. Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce.
Asian
Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC, a national Asian
American policy advocacy organization, issues the following
statement:
“Asian
Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC celebrates the Senate’s
confirmation of Robert Santos as the Director of the U.S. Census
Bureau at the Department of Commerce. We congratulate Santos as he
becomes the first person of color to serve in this position.
His
confirmation is particularly significant as his areas of specialization include
working with undocumented immigrant populations and disadvantaged
communities. Having worked with these communities,
Santos understands the issues facing communities of color and immigrant
populations and will use that knowledge to work effectively with our
communities to get an accurate and fair count of traditionally hard to
reach segments of our population. Furthermore, Santos has engaged with a
diverse range of policy work, which spans from education and health to
immigration and elections.
Communities
across the country, especially the most marginalized, depend on fair and
accurate Decennial Census data, which determine the distribution of federal
funds and resources, the American Community Survey, and other data products.
With over 40 years of experience as a statistician, Santos has dedicated his
career toward building expertise in quantitative and qualitative research
design, statistical analysis, sampling, and survey operations. As the 116th
President of the American Statistical Association and the Vice President and
Chief Methodologist at the Urban Institute, Santos engaged directly with the
intersections of data, statistics, and advocacy —a set of knowledge that makes
him more than qualified to serve as the Director of the U.S. Census
Bureau.
We look
forward to working with Santos, especially as redistricting data has been
released, and other important data products are forthcoming. With his extensive
expertise in mind, Advancing Justice – AAJC is confident that he is the right
person to lead the federal government’s largest statistical agency.”
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