Falcón selected for Census Bureau’s Hispanic Advisory Committee.

Angelo Falcón, the president and co-founder of the National Institute for Latino Policy, has been selected by Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez to serve on the U.S. Census Bureau’s Advisory Committee on the Hispanic population.

As a member of the nine-person committee, the New York City resident will advise the Census Bureau on the new American Community Survey and ways to achieve a more accurate count of the Hispanic population in the 2010 Census.

“The Race and Ethnic Advisory Committees play a vital role in ensuring that we make the best effort possible to reach race and ethnic groups, not only during the
2010 Census, but also the American Community Survey that is conducted throughout the decade,” Census Bureau Director Steve H. Murdock said.

Falcón is an adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia University School of Public and International Affairs. He created the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy in New York City in the early 1980s, becoming one of the longest-serving chief executives of a Latino nonprofit in the country.