The recording of this first call can be heard at: http://funderscommittee.org/audio/january_first_monday_call_philanthropys_role_in_ensuring_a_fair_and_accurate_2010_census_count
Philanthropy’s Role in Ensuring a Fair and Accurate 2010 Census Count, with speaker Terri Ann Lowenthal, President-elect Barack Obama’s Census Transition Team member, Karen McGill Lawson, President and CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund, and call moderator Darren Sandow from the Hagedorn Foundation, to hear the latest update on the state of the 2010 census, its implications and the opportunities that exist for funders and advocates to ensure a fair and accurate count. In subsequent calls, we’ll delve deeper into the issues surrounding the census undercount, beginning with a call on February 9th focused on immigrant populations and the 2010 Census.
Speaker Bios:
Terri Ann Lowenthal, President-elect Barack Obama’s Census Transition Team member
Terri Ann Lowenthal is a consultant specializing in issues related to the census, the federal statistical system, and the use of data for policy purposes. She has worked with non-profit, corporate, and federal agency clients, as well as scientific associations, that produce and use statistical information. Ms. Lowenthal currently is a consultant to The Census Project (www.thecensusproject.org), a nonpartisan collaborative effort of census stakeholders to promote a fair and accurate 2010 Census through education and communication with policymakers, the media, and the public. Prior to establishing a consulting practice, Ms. Lowenthal served as a congressional staff aide in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate from 1981 – 1995. She served for eight years as staff director of the House Subcommittee on Census and Population (later renamed the Subcommittee on Census, Statistics, and Postal Personnel), where she guided the panel’s oversight of the 1990 census and the 2000 census planning process. She also was chief of staff to Representative Tom Sawyer (D-OH), an aide to Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. (R-CT), and held staff positions on several House Post Office and Civil Service subcommittees and the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Karen McGill Lawson, President and CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund
Karen McGill Lawson is President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund (LCCREF) and Deputy Director for Education and Operations for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Ms. Lawson oversees all of the LCCREF endeavors including its public education campaigns on important civil rights public policy issues such as education reform and census; its work in improving inter-group relations including its multi leadership project; and its assistance in building the capacity of the civil rights coalition through field and communications outreach and strategic planning. Ms. Lawson is co-author of Talking to Our Children About Racism, Prejudice and Diversity; Building One Nation, A Study Of What Is Being Done Today in Schools, Neighbors and the Workplace, and All Together Now!, a guide to educational activities and resources on diversity for teachers of young children; and a contributing editor of Voting Rights in America: Continuing the Quest for Full Participation, a collection of essays on voting rights including an essay by Bill Clinton. She is also founder and contributing editor of the Civil Rights Monitor, a quarterly publication that tracks the civil rights activities of the federal government. http://www.civilrights.org/about/lccref/biolawson.html
Darren Sandow, Executive Director, Hagedorn Foundation
Using Long Island as its starting point, the Foundation seeks to support and promote social equity. He is a graduate of the Master's Program for Nonprofit Management at New School for Social Research. His background is diverse, beginning as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica, later working at the Health and Welfare Council of Nassau County, and as the CFO for the People's Firehouse in Brooklyn. Until 2005, Darren served as the Program Director for the Long Island Community Foundation and the Long Island Unitarian Universalist Fund (LIUUF). He came to the Hagedorn Foundation in August of 2005. http://www.hagedornfoundation.org/index.php/about_us/staff_bios/