How can we empower and target undercounted communities during the upcoming 2020 U.S. Census? We discussed this topic during SUDECC’s most recent Emancipation Day, Earth Day & Garifuna Settlement Day Celebration in Washington, DC. Federal and local government representatives, international development professionals, and community activists contributed to the conversation and I enjoyed it.

Census data is crucial to the successful creation of policies and the implementation of programs. Understanding how it is collected, tabulated, analyzed and reported is a key part of the process.