Terri Ann Lowenthal

BIOGRAPHY IN BRIEF

Terri Ann Lowenthal is a nationally recognized expert, consultant, and frequent speaker on the U.S. census and policy issues affecting federal statistics. During a 14-year career as a congressional aide in both the House and Senate, she was staff director of the House census oversight subcommittee from 1987-94 and later covered the Census Bureau and broader federal statistical activities for the 2008 Obama Presidential Transition Team. The then-Subcommittee on Census, Statistics, and Postal Personnel also had jurisdiction over federal holidays and observances. Prior to joining the census oversight subcommittee staff, Terri was deputy staff director (and acting staff director) of the Subcommittee on Postal Personnel and Modernization. Her congressional experience also included positions as chief of staff to Rep. Thomas C. Sawyer (D-OH) and staff assistant to Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R-CT).

Terri Ann advises The Leadership Conference Education Fund; the Funders Census Initiative; Bloomberg Associates; state and local government associations and officials; business and industry data users; and other stakeholders, on census policy and operational issues. She was co-director of The Census Project through 2016 and regularly posted on The Census Project Blog, and now serves on the Project’s advisory council. She also is a member of the advisory group for UC Riverside’s Center for Social Innovation Census Legacies, a network of census stakeholders and funders working to build on collaborative 2020 Census efforts to inform and improve planning for the 2030 Census. Terri Ann served on 2020 Census Complete Count Committees for the State of Connecticut and the City of Stamford.

Terri Ann holds a B.A. in Africana Studies from Cornell University and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She was a member of the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission and served on the Cornell University Council and President’s Council of Cornell Women. She is a Senior Stennis Center Congressional Staff Fellow and was a member of the Inaugural Class of Fellows in the 103rd Congress. Terri taught ice skating for 45+ years and is a member of the Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena (Washington, DC) board of directors, where she was Skating Director from 2002-07. She now lives and works in her home town of Stamford, CT, and is the proud grandmother of two.