FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                         MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2000

Decennial Media Relations                                           CB00-CN.60
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Jeri Green (301) 457-2070
Edwina Jaramillo (301) 457-4047

       Census Bureau Advisory Committees on Race and Ethnicity 
                           Meet in November
                                
                                
  The U.S. Census Bureau's five advisory committees on race and ethnicity
will hold their annual meeting in Alexandria, Va., Nov. 2 - 3.

  The current committees were established in 1985 to serve as liaisons
between the Census Bureau and the American Indian and Alaska Native,
African American, Asian, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders, and
Hispanic populations. The committees' primary focus is to advise the
Census Bureau on how to better serve these populations by offering advice
on such topics as race and ethnic tabulations, partnership programs,
advertising, language programs and recruitment. The Committees' activities
relate to the remaining elements of Census 2000, the planning and design
of the 2010 decennial census, and the American Community Survey, a large
monthly survey scheduled to go nationwide in 2003.

  The committees are composed of representatives of the general public, as
well as members of national, regional and local organizations. During
their November meeting, the committees are scheduled to welcome several
new members.

  New members on the African American committee are John W. Mack,
president of the Los Angeles Urban League, and Gwendolyn Holmes, assistant
vice president for consumer lending at Hancock Bank in Gulfport, Miss.  
Jon Melegrito, the executive director of the National Federation of
Filipino American Associations, and Dr. K.V. Rao, associate professor of
sociology at Bowling Green State University, are new members of the Asian
committee. The Hispanic committee's new members are Susana Gomez,
assistant director of the AFL-CIO's Civil Rights Department, and Ana Sol
Gutierrez, senior consulting engineer and director of Strategic IT
Consulting at Computer Sciences Corp.

  Four new members of the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders
Committee are William Afeaki, the director of the Utah State Office of
Pacific Islander Affairs; Jobie Yamaguchi, deputy to the chairman of the
Department of Hawaiian Homelands; Dr. Faye Untalan, associate professor at
the Department of Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology, John A. Burns
School of Medicine, University of Hawaii; and William Emmsley, Jr., chief
executive officer of the Samoan Service Providers Association.