I am most recent past Chair of the U.S. Census Bureau's external Scientific Advisory Committee (CSAC). I currently serve as the co-chair of the Census Quality Reinforcement task force. I served as Racial Reconciliation Co-Chair for the 2018 Tricentennial Commission of the City of New Orleans, appointed by then Mayor Mitch Landrieu. I am co-author of Pandemic to Prosperity, developed in collaboration with National Conference on Citizenship, to track the impact and ongoing recovery from the COVID health and economic crises. I co-authored The New Orleans Index, developed in collaboration with the Brookings Institution, to track the recovery of New Orleans post-Katrina. I co-authored The New Orleans Prosperity Index for the Tricentennial of the City of New Orleans to examine whether outcomes had improved for Black New Orleanians since the end of the Civil Rights Era. My areas of expertise are applied demographics, disaster recovery indicators, racial disparities and their historical antecedents