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 and federal statistical system 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 includes positions as chief of staff to Rep. Thomas C. Sawyer (D-OH), staff assistant to Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R-CT), and work on the House Education and Labor Committee.

Terri Ann’s has advised The Leadership Conference Education Fund, Funders’ Committee Census Initiative, Bloomberg Associates (the consulting arm of Bloomberg Philanthropies), Census Funder Collaborative, 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. Terri Ann served on 2020 Census Complete Count Committees for the State of Connecticut and the City of Stamford (where she also helped with 2010 Census efforts). Over the course of her career, she has written articles and reports on the collection of race and ethnicity data, congressional oversight of the census, the importance of federal data to policymakers, and many other related topics.

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 a joyful grandmother of two.