Rachelle Hill, Ph.D., Acting Co-Director

Rachelle Hill is an Acting Co-Director of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center program in the Center for Enterprise Dissemination (CED), U.S Census Bureau. Prior to this position, she was a Lead Administrator and has been the Administrator serving the Minnesota FSRDC. Her primary research interests focus on how work and family intersect to influence individual well-being across the US population and how social structures produce unequal outcomes in these areas. She earned an MPH in Epidemiology and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota.

Frank Limehouse, Ph.D., Acting Co-Director

Frank Limehouse is an Acting Co-Director of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center program in the Center for Enterprise Dissemination (CED), U.S Census Bureau. He has served in several positions at the Census Bureau including as an economist, a Lead Administrator, and an administrator at the Chicago FSRDC located at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Clemson University and has held faculty positions at the University of Georgia and DePaul University. Frank's primary area of research is industrial organization.

David Beede, Ph.D., Knowledge Transfer Officer

David Beede is the Knowledge Transfer Officer of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center program in the Center for Enterprise Dissemination (CED), U.S. Census Bureau. In this role, he collects FSRDC research project results that benefit the Census Bureau, shares these results with Census Bureau program areas, and collects information about the research needs of the program areas. He also disseminates FSRDC research to a wide audience through the FSRDC webpage. David earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 1996. Previously, he served as Economist in the Commerce Department’s Office of the Chief Economist where he co-authored several reports on advanced technologies, STEM occupations, and the value of government data. His primary research interest is the impact of new technology adoption on workers and firms.

Mike Castro, Senior Advisor for Special Projects

Mike is the Senior Advisor for Special Projects in the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) program at the U.S. Census Bureau. Mike oversees the FSRDC remote access program, and is leading data curation efforts, the pursuit of new partnerships, and the exploration of new technologies. He came to the FSRDC program from xD where he served as the Portfolio Manager for Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and prior to that was the Chief of the Policy and Data Stewardship Branch in the Census Bureau's Policy Coordination Office.

Neil Russell, Director of the Research Data Center (RDC) for the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).

Neil Russell is the Director of the Research Data Center (RDC) for the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).  In his role, he manages the RDC program and staff that help researchers access restricted-use data at four NCHS sponsored RDCs.  Previously, he served as the Confidentiality Officer for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (CBHSQ) at SAMHSA.  He also managed the restricted-use data access programs at the National Center for Education Statistics and CBHSQ.  He served on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) workgroup that authored the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act implementation guidance and served for two years as the chair of OMB’s Confidentiality and Data Access Committee.  He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Arizona State University.

John Finamore, Chief Statistician, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), National Science Foundation

John Finamore is the Chief Statistician and Confidentiality Officer for the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the National Science Foundation. In this role, he serves as the agency’s senior technical advisor in the areas of survey methods, statistical standards, disclosure avoidance, and data quality. Prior to arriving at NCSES, he worked at the Census Bureau serving as a lead mathematical statistician on demographic surveys sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and NCSES.