Jeri Green Archives

Jeri Green sits at her desk at the U.S. Census Bureau in 2016. For over three decades, Green has helped make the decennial census a leading civil rights issue, both as a Census Bureau insider, and now as an advocate for the National Urban League. (Courtesy of Trice Edney News Wire)

Jeri Green’s Lifelong Crusade to Reverse Historic Undercounts

by WI Guest Author June 6, 2019December 21, 2021

Jeri Green’s passion for the census is still sunrise bright. An outspoken champion of the concerns of African Africans and any people who have been diminished, marginalized or systemically undercounted, she is an enthusiastic and determined advocate for how participation in the census can contribute to healthier communities and a more equitable America.

**FILE** Signs sit behind the podium before the start of a press conference with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to announce a multi-state lawsuit to block the Trump administration from adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 Census form, at the headquarters of District Council 37, New York City's largest public employee union, April 3, 2018 in New York City. Critics of President Donald Trump's administration's decision to reinstate the citizenship question contend that that it will frighten people in immigrant communities from responding to the census. The Trump administration has stated a citizenship question on the census will help enforce voting rights. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Black Experience, National

Citizenship Question Could Hurt Census Count of Black America

by WI Guest Author February 12, 2019October 31, 2020

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