{"id":37621,"date":"2014-10-06T19:59:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37621"},"modified":"2014-10-06T20:11:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T20:11:08","slug":"37621","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37621","title":{"rendered":"Census Bureau Names 10 New Members to National Advisory Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2014\/cb14-186.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Census Bureau Names 10 New Members to National Advisory Committee<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\" target=\"_blank\">United States Census Bureau<\/a><br \/>\nRelease Number: CB14-186<br \/>\n2014-10-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:pio@census.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Public Information Office<\/a><br \/>\n301-763-3030<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Census Bureau today announced 10 new members to serve on the Census Bureau\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/cac\/race_ethnic_advisory_committees\/reac_membership_all_committees.html\" target=\"_blank\">National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/cac\/race_ethnic_advisory_committees\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Advisory Committee<\/a> advises the Census Bureau on a wide range of variables that affect the cost, accuracy and implementation of the Census Bureau\u2019s programs and surveys, including the once-a-decade census. The committee, which is comprised of 32 members from multiple disciplines, advises the Census Bureau on topics such as housing, children, youth, poverty, privacy, race and ethnicity, as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other populations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe expertise of this committee will help us meet emerging challenges the Census Bureau faces in producing statistics about our diverse nation,\u201d Census Bureau Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/history\/www\/census_then_now\/director_biographies\/john_h_thompson.html\" target=\"_blank\">John H. Thompson<\/a> said. \u201cBy helping us better understand a variety of issues that affect statistical measurement, this committee will help ensure that the Census Bureau continues to provide relevant and timely statistics used by federal, state and local governments as well as business and industry in an increasingly technologically oriented society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 10 new members are:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.ucsb.edu\/people\/person.php?account_id=214\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lily Anne Yumi Welty Tamai<\/strong><\/a>, the curator of history at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janm.org\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese American National Museum<\/a> who is in the final months of a postdoctoral fellowship in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=29669\" target=\"_blank\">critical mixed-race studies<\/a> at the University of Southern California. She has a doctorate of philosophy in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a former Fulbright Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire news\u00a0release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2014\/cb14-186.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census Bureau Names 10 New Members to National Advisory Committee United States Census Bureau Release Number: CB14-186 2014-10-06 Public Information Office 301-763-3030 The U.S. Census Bureau today announced 10 new members to serve on the Census Bureau\u2019s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations. 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