Club Mtg: Fang Fang on Census 2020

Fang Fang will give us an overview of the 2020 US Census, which has been in the news quite a bit in the past few years.
She will cover the basics of the census, how the data is collected and protected, and describe the impact to Texas, including
issue with undercounting of hard-to-contact people.

Fang Fang is a Partnership Specialist for the United States Census Bureau. She is responsible for developing partnerships with all level of governments, community-based organizations, faith-based groups, schools, media, businesses, and other grassroots entities in communities in the Greater Austin area for the Decennial Census in 2020.

Fang Fang spearheaded the formation of the Asian Complete Count Committees (CCC) in Austin and in San Antonio, which quickly became a model for other ethnicity based CCCs. She also serves as a liaison member of multiple regional CCCs to advise and coordinate their collective efforts on 2020 Census, including Williamson County CCC and the Business subcommittee of the City of Austin and Travis County joint CCC.

Fang Fang has worked both on the Hill and at the local lever in government, media and technology. She worked as a Congressional Reporter in Washington, DC with Voice of America Chinese Branch, before transferring to New York as its New York Correspondent. She then worked in Public Affairs at Edelman’s New York office, facilitating global companies to form positive relationship with the government and public in the United States. Prior to join the U.S. Census Bureau, she co-founded a technology startup to provide supply-chain solutions for small international e-commerce vendors. She traveled 35 cities in Asia and Latin America to study the local markets as well as their entrepreneur ecosystem.

Fang Fang holds a Master’s degree in International Journalism from Baylor University in the United States, and a Bachelor’s degree in English from Northeastern University in China.